[syslinux] Freeze on boot ?
Nicolas Boulay
nico at seul.org
Tue Mar 15 14:00:33 PST 2005
Le mardi 15 Mars 2005 01:22, vous avez écrit :
> Nicolas Boulay wrote:
> >I try to use a linux on a soekris : http://www.soekris.com/net4801.htm .
> >This is a tiny PC without screen nor keyboard. So i can use only a RS232
> >console.
>
> Ive got one of those.
> I boot mostly with pxelinux, currently using 3.08pre5
>
> this is how I started.
> http://www.cheapnet.net/~mike/soekris/ , also linked from soekris
> support page.
That's the page i used to test the soekris. They use lilo.
>
> If youre struggling, try that 1st, then carry the experience over
> to your mandrake-iso approach.
lilo can't be used. It looks too much inside the image /dev which as nothing
in common with the soekris. And i don't have any /dev in my image file.
>
> youll probly want CONSOLE 0 in your syslinux.conf (or whatever exact
> name is)
extlinux.conf :)
I have tried it.
> it fixes embedded escapes in serial-line for me, which you should also
> get from lilo
> (which proves its not syslinux).
> pls corroborate this - by leaving directive out til you see the spew,
> then 'fixing' it.
>
i use this script to burn the compact flash card :
dd if=astrolinux.img of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
mount /dev/sdb ./essais/
./syslinux/syslinux-3.07/extlinux/extlinux ./essais/isolinux
umount ./essais/
The content of the astrolinux.img :
[cyrano at Bi linux]$ ll -R ./root_file_system
essais2:
total 71647
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 mar 15 22:33 isolinux/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73076736 mar 15 22:33 livecd.sqfs
essais2/isolinux:
total 3781
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 2048 mar 15 22:33 boot.cat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 555 mar 15 22:33 extlinux.conf
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 9220 mar 15 22:33 extlinux.sys
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1778816 mar 15 22:32 initrd.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9660 mar 15 22:33 isolinux.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 555 mar 15 22:33 isolinux.cfg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 503928 mar 15 22:33 mediacheck*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1544151 mar 15 22:33 vmlinuz
The content of extlinux.conf :
default livecd
prompt 0
timeout 150
label livecd
kernel vmlinuz
append livecd=livecd initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/rd/3 devfs=nomount \
acpi=ht nomce vga=normal keyb=fr console=ttyS0,19200n8
label initrd
kernel vmlinuz
append livecd=initrd initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/rd/3 devfs=nomount \
acpi=ht nomce vga=normal keyb=fr console=ttyS0,19200n8
label memtest
kernel memtest
label mediacheck
kernel vmlinuz
append livecd=livecd md5sum initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/rd/3 \
devfs=nomount acpi=ht nomce vga=normal keyb=fr console=ttyS0,19200n8
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