[Voyage-linux] Installation problem

[Steve Taylor]

>>
> 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

I commented out the serial port enable in lilo.conf and that cured the  
double characters. The serial port is already enabled in the BIOS so  
enabling it again in lilo causes the doubling of the characters.
>
> 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.
>
>
I added ide-core.nodma=0.0 and =0.1 and I also added irqpoll which I found  
that someone else had used.
None of these made any difference in the lost interrupt problems with the  
HD installed.
I am not sure what to try next.
Thanks,
Steve



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