[Voyage-linux] Installation problem

[Jim Cromie]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Steve Taylor
<steven.taylor56 at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> Yes, I am using a USB adapter to access the CF card. I have now tried LILO
> and it does boot. At first I get LI, then a new line with LILL, and then it
> waits for 20-30 seconds and then it starts with "OO   2222..88
> LLooaaddiinngg  LLiinnuuxx......." until Linux actually starts booting. Then
> the output is correct and it runs through a lot of stuff finally getting to
> a point where it says "Remounting / as read-write..." and then hangs. After
> a while it comes back with "[ some numbers ] hda: Lost Interrupt". Then the
> lost interrupt message repeats every so often and that's all that happens.
>
>
I have an old soekris 4801.
I used to see this booting with syslinux/pxelinux,
until HPA (author) added CONSOLE 0 to syslinux. (back around 3.60 iirc)
The soekris bios has some weird feature where it sent some
VGA stuff to console (matching the junk you reported),
and sent double characters (you also see).
HPA magically diagnosed it from my description, and his fix worked for me.

I dont know how this might express in grub or lilo

For the lost interrupt, Id suggest adding the following,
it fixed 4801's lack of DMA, maybe 5501 has same issue.

 ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc
 .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr
.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options
 See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.


This Soekris 5501 had ubuntu 7.10 installed on the HD and it was working. I
> decided to upgrade it, first to ubuntu 8.04 which went well and everything
> was working. Then I tried to upgrade to 10.04 and after that it would no
> longer boot and in fact seems to have reverted back to 7.10. That's all I
> can find in the /boot directory. I was thinking that Voyage might be a
> better approach than trying to reinstall ubuntu.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
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