Re: Upgraded NeTTrom from 2.1.24 to 2.3.3 - refuses to boot
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 06:35:30PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> Finally, I managed to get the serial line working. I believe I was
> just being fooled by minicom, but I'm not sure. Anyway. Here is a
> boot without the keyboard connected. It loops after detecting the
> network interfaces.
Okay, I would guess your kernel (minikernel) is damaged. Noramlly the
gzip would catch this, but you never know...
> Video RAM: Detecting bus width...64 bit
> Video RAM: Detecting size...[4MB=NO][2MB=YES]
> [NeTTrom] Mapping in /romdev/ide..waiting for disk spin-up..
> [NeTTrom] IDE Disk: LBA supported: total 0x00409980 sectors.
>
> Press '*' TWICE to enter debug......AutoBoot commencing...
>
> I'm unable to stop it using '**'. Any clues?
Press it in advance, and also press enter afterwards.
Then you can download a kernel serially, as documented at:
http://www.netwinder.org/howto/Firmware-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.7
Basically, you do:
x c000
---> send the kernel via xmodem
j c000
-R
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