Bug#245393: Soekris net4800
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: Beta3 (Thu Apr 22 23:40:38 CEST 2004)
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/
uname -a:
Linux soekris 2.4.25-1-386 #1 Tue Feb 24 08:11:13 EST 2004 i586 GNU/Linux
Date: Thu Apr 22 23:40:38 CEST 2004
Method: Network install, booted with pxegrub
Machine: Soekris net4800 (http://soekris.com/net4801.htm)
Processor: 266 Mhz Geode NSC SC1100
Memory: 128 MB
Root Device: IDE, 80GB Toshiba MK8025GAS
Root Size/partition table:
soekris:~# fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 851 6835626 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 852 9729 71312535 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 852 913 497983+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 914 9729 70814488+ 83 Linux
soekris:~#
/dev/hda1 mounted as /
/dev/hda6 mounted as /home
Output of lspci:
soekris:~# lspci
pcilib: Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Cyrix Corporation PCI Master
0000:00:06.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
0000:00:07.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
0000:00:08.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
0000:00:12.0 ISA bridge: National Semiconductor Corporation: Unknown device 0510
0000:00:12.1 Bridge: National Semiconductor Corporation: Unknown device 0511
0000:00:12.2 IDE interface: National Semiconductor Corporation SCx200 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:12.5 Bridge: National Semiconductor Corporation: Unknown device 0515
0000:00:13.0 USB Controller: Compaq Computer Corporation ZFMicro Chipset USB (rev 08)
soekris:~#
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [E]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [E]
Reboot: [E]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
The net4800 is an embedded box with no keyboard, screen, floppy or
CD-rom drive. I didn't expect the above errors to work out of the box.
I booted the box using pxegrub downloaded from
http://www.berger.to/openbsd/pxegrub.html (pxegrub.sis-tty-19200.gz)
Kernel and initrd was downloaded via tftp and bootet with the
following grub commands:
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram ramdisk_size=8192 devfs=mount,dall console=ttyS0,19200
initrd /initrd.gz
The boot loader installed by debian-installer wasn't set up to use
serial console so I aborted the first reboot and booted with pxegrub
getting the commands from the installed menu.lst.
The proceeding installation process correctly till the end and then
the machine seemed to hang. Of course /etc/inittab wasn't configured
to start getty on /dev/ttyS0.
Booting in single user mode (with pxegrub) and correcting /etc/inittab
with ed (neither vi or nano worked) everthing seem to work as
expected.
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