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Installation issues / Re: EEE Box Hanging On Boot

« on: November 13, 2008, 11:40:55 am »

Hi, i have finally managed to get some clear time and thought i would try to get this eee box that i have had for a while now working as a MD.  I followed Andrews  wiki page at

http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/R8168  ( ( thanks to Andrew for the clear guide! )

and then

http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Unrecognized_NIC

At the end of this the eee box manages to perform the initial boot and performs Running diskless_setup.sh etc and creates the new md image etc.  This all goes great but then when the md reboots i get a kernel panic.

[ 32.105997 ] NET: Registered protocol family 17
ipconfig: eth0: SIOCGIFINDEX: No such device
ipconfig: no devices to configure
/init: .: 1: Cant open /tmp/net-eth0.conf
{ 32.128700] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!


Given that the initial boot runs ok, i figured i must have done something wrong when following the Unrecognized_NIC instructions for the MD part as described at the bottom of that page....however i have now redone that process at least 10 times and get the same result.

I have followed the instructions to the button....well at least that i can see...

Anyone got any  ideas ?

Thank you

Bryan

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Installation issues / Re: EEE Box Hanging On Boot

« on: September 05, 2008, 06:13:53 pm »

Hi Andrew, thanks for the link and that very helpful advice.  It will become very useful to a lot of new eee box owners!

However i seem to have messed up my core boot image for new MDs and cant get the eee box to boot now at all!
I followed the advice given in your first reply about adding an unrecognised NIC, however stupidly i didnt read the full page before acting on the instructions ( i.e. i didnt notice the caveat at the end of the page )  My core is an AMD64 and as i changed the initial boot image the eee box now gives the error

"Your CPU does not support long mode.  Please use a 32bit distribution"

I presume i have changed the boot image to 64bit mode....and yes i know i should have read the page in full but i was too keen to get this eee box working...my bad.

Anyone any ideas how to restore it to the original ? Without having to reinstall my whole core...

Bryan

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Installation issues / EEE Box Hanging On Boot

« on: August 31, 2008, 03:51:33 pm »

Hi, been playing around with lmce for a while now and think its a great system.  I got my hands on an eee box and thought i would give it a try...however it hangs on bootup.  Seems to be a problem with the inbuilt memory card reader.  Below is a link to screenshot of the output....once it hits this point it just stops, keyboard input still works etc but the boot process wont proceed any further.



[img=http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/3756/dscf1744ti4.th.jpg]

If anyone has any ideas on what the issue might be i would be very keen to hear them
The eee box is a great piece of work and it would be great to get them working as an MD!

Bryan