[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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