<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Steve Taylor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steven.taylor56@sbcglobal.net">steven.taylor56@sbcglobal.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have an old soekris 4801.</div><div>I used to see this booting with syslinux/pxelinux, </div><div>until HPA (author) added CONSOLE 0 to syslinux. (back around 3.60 iirc)</div><div>The soekris bios has some weird feature where it sent some</div>
<div>VGA stuff to console (matching the junk you reported),</div><div>and sent double characters (you also see).</div><div>HPA magically diagnosed it from my description, and his fix worked for me.</div><div><br></div><div>
I dont know how this might express in grub or lilo</div><div> </div><div>For the lost interrupt, Id suggest adding the following,</div><div>it fixed 4801's lack of DMA, maybe 5501 has same issue.</div><div><br></div>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ide-core.nodma=<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>[HW] (E)IDE subsystem</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>.vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>.cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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.<br>
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