Re: Kernel CRC error on NSLU2

[John <jl.050877@gmail.com>]

Hi Gordon:

     That helped: it now gets past the CRC check.  However, it still
fails with these errors (via serial port):

> Loading Intel IXP400 ethernet driver
> FATAL: Module ixp400_eth not found.
> Failed to load Intel IXP400 ethernet driver
> Done.
> Begin: Waiting for root file system... ...
> Done.
>         Check root= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline
>         or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev
> ALERT! /dev/sda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

     On the attached hard disk, sda1 is the swap partition.

     I have not made any changes to initramfs: Although the
installer ran to completion with no visible error, I haven't yet
had a successful boot into Debian.

Thanks for your help,

John

On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 01:12:37PM -0600, Gordon Farquharson wrote:
> Hi John
> 
> On 4/30/07, John <jl.050877@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have not seen this problem before.
> 
> Try flashing
> 
> http://cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/files/sda1-2.6.18.dfsg.1-12.bin
> 
> to your NSLU2. This file contains a copy of the flash image that is
> installed with Debian-4.0r0 (etch). If you have not changed anything
> in the APEX configuration environment, or updated your initramfs (and
> I think that that there have not been any package changes to etch that
> will have triggered an automatic update to your initramfs), this file
> should be exactly the same as what currently exists in your flash.
> Even if there have been updates to your initramfs, this flash image
> should work, but once you are able to boot again, you should run
> flash-kernel to flash the latest initramfs that is stored in /boot.
> 
> If flashing the file does not result in a bootable system, then try
> flashing SlugOS to see if that kernel boots. Flashing SlugOS will not
> affect your Debian installation that exists on your disk. If SlugOS
> works, then flash the image referenced above again.
> 
> Gordon
> 
> -- 
> Gordon Farquharson