[Voyage-linux] ALIX 2C2 Kernel hang

[Punky Tse]

Hi,

I don't know how you migrate from your old PC to alix.  I guess you did 
not set serial port correctly.  Try specify it in the kernel parameter.

Or try a fresh install to see.

- Punky



Clemens Krammer wrote:
> Dear Voyage Team,
>
> recently I purchased an ALIX 2c2 Board for firewalling reasons, planning
> to migrate from an old Pentum 75MHz to the Geode.
>
> To make a long story short, the kernel hangs right after loading. grub
> boots fine, when going to the grub commandline i see every file with tab
> expansion and so on... After selecting kernel, initrd both load and
> then: nothing. Ive tried 5 different kernels with a lot of variation
> with bios features: nothing.
>
> After googling around, I only found similar problems with
>
>  - alix 1 boards, when not connecting a monitor. but the alix 2c2 doesnt
>    even have a vga port.
>
>  - the mfgpt thing, but with this issue at least a few kernl boot lines
>    appear ( I would be happy to read them).
>
> I upgraded to 0.99, getting nomfgpt and udma features, tried both:
> nothing.
>
> I tried a standard voyage linux installation from scratch with 0.5.2:
> grub is fine, loading kernel and then: nothing.
>
> One "funny" thing: I builded a new kernel fro troubleshooting, starting
> with a debian 2.6.24 config is disabled some VESA Framebuffer Feature
> (it came from the alix 1 board monitor issue), I think it was some
> CONFIG_EDID or so. When using this kernel I see 1 (one) line:
>
> CHECIKING for EDD : blah blah ....ok
>
> and then : nothing
>
>
> I personally think my board has hardware defects.
>
> Does anyone have similar experiences? I heard of successfully installed
> on a alix 2c2 in some forum.
>
>
>
> Thanks in Advance,
> Clemens
>
>
>
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