[Voyage-linux] ALIX 2C2 Kernel hang

[Stratos Goudelis]

I had the same issue with a alix3c3 with debian lenny. This board has a
vga port. And it only boots if the vga cable is connected. So weird.
I already verified whether the console is redirected to serial. It is not.

Cheers

Punky Tse wrote:
> 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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