Re: On Soekris Install adventures...

[llx <llx@hispeed.ch>]

On Tuesday 10 February 2004 14:30, Diana Eichert wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Javier Solorzano wrote:
> SNIP
>
> > I got a new Soekris NET4801 and I installed a Hitachi 40MB HD. I
> > decided to use pxe with pxegrub to boot bsd.rd and do a network install
> > on the hard disk. This part is quite easy indeed. Just grab pxegrub
> > complied with support for the sis network card and 19200 com1 terminal
> > support. It works great, but don't go that avenue cause you'll get in
> > trouble. bsd.rd won't configure correctly your hd and you'll get
> > geometry mismatches with fdisk, disklabel and install boot. I spent
> > lots of time trying to fix it with no success. I guess that you can
> > play around with installboot and chs settings, but it's not worth the
> > time. I plugged the HD into a borrowed laptop, did a normal install,
> > returned the HD to the soekris and voila! the whole process took less
> > than 20 minutes.
>
> You should try installing a recent snapshot instead of 3.4.  There has
> been a lot of work done on the boot loader recently.

does not help here. tried snapshot from 2004.02.10.

by the way: the bios still seems to have troubles. it get's confused by
a 1G microdrive. 
- reckons a primary slave. there's no such device! 
- refuses to boot using pxe.
so i tried with a 2.5" disk.