[Voyage-linux] ALIX: grub hangs with Grub loading, please wait...

[Bart Jooris]

Hi CoolEx,

I just had a look if PXE booting is an option, but my ALIX doesn't like it.

I use a ScanDisk CF to USB convertor by which I can access my CF as 
/dev/sdX.
Then I invoked:
#format-cf.sh /dev/sda
#update.voyage
I got:

> Configuration details:
> ----------------------
>
> Distribution directory:   /tmp/root
>
> Disk/Flash Device:        /dev/sdb
> Installation Partition:   /dev/sdb1
> Bootstrap Partition:      /dev/sdb1
>
> Will be mounted on:       /tmp/cf
>
> Target system profile:    ALIX
> Target console:           serial
> Target baud rate:         38400
>
> Bootstrap installer:      grub
> Bootstrap partition:      /dev/sdb1
>
> OK to continue (y/n)?
>
> Ready to go ....
> Copying files .... done
>
> Removing pcmcia from update-rc.d
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>     LANGUAGE = (unset),
>     LC_ALL = (unset),
>     LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
>     are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
>  Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/pcmcia ...
> Removing dnsmasq.pxe.conf in /etc/dnsmasq.more.conf
> copyfiles.sh script completed


Then I tried:
#mount /dev/sdb1 /tmp/cf
#chroot /tmp/cf
#grub
#root (

but grub doesn't suggest any device, I tried it all (hd0,...) but it 
complains with "disk does not exist"

Is that normal behavior?

Thanks,

Bart

Cool/Explosion wrote:

> Hi Bart,
> maybe problem is in device name, because sdX is name for SATA, SCSI a 
> USB disks, bud IDE and CF cards in IDE slots have name hdX...
>
> Try edit grub configs...
>
> CoolEx
>
> Bart Jooris napsal(a):
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just received my first ALIX board with a 512MB CF card from 
>> PC-Engines.
>> I still had my 'old' voyage live cd 0.2 that was used to breathe new 
>> life into the WRAPS, with this CD I installed a CF with the option 
>> <Generic PC> and my new ALIX booted as expected.
>>
>> Next I tried to install with the development (dst ALIX) and the 
>> stable version (dst generic) of voyage live CDs. When I select grub 
>> as boot loader I got some perl warnings but no errors. But when I 
>> boot my ALIX (or any other PC), grub hangs with:
>>
>> Grub loading, please wait...
>>
>> during the installation with lilo as boot loader I got this errors:
>> Fatal: stat /dev/sda: No such file or directory
>> Fatal Error: Failed to chroot to  to install lilo
>>
>> Any ideas on this? Thanks!
>>
>> Bart
>>
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