Re: [leaf-user] problem booting on soekris net5501-70

[Erich T. <eri...@th...>]

Hi Graziano

Am 05.05.2016 um 14:47 schrieb Graziano Brioschi:
> Hi everyone,
>
> today I have found a booting problem on a soekris net5501 using LEAF
> version 5.2.5 for geode CPU
> (Bering-uClibc_5.2.5_geode_syslinux_serial115200.tar.gz).
>
> after the hardware POST, on serial console i can see (after tha i have
> enabled the VERBOSE=1 variable in leaf.cfg):
>
>
> SYSLINUX 6.03 EDD 2014-10-06 Copyright (C) 1994-2014 H. Peter Anvin et al
>
> SYSLINUX 6.03 2014-10-06 Copyright (C) 1994-2014 H. Peter Anvin et al
> okading /syslinux/linux...
> okading /initrd.lrp...
> okading /initmod.lrp...
>
>
> and nothing more...
>
> On the same machine, I can successfully boot leaf 5.2.3 for geode CPU.
>
> Some suggestion? are there some problem with this specific version? Have
> I do something wrong?

There is not really something I can think of. As it appears syslinux is 
loading initrd and initmod but then gets stuck. I am not using syslinux 
but there should be little difference. After loading initial ram disk it 
should execute init, which is just a shell script. The fact that setting 
VERBOSE in leaf.cfg changes something on your system makes me think that 
init is actually called but hangs somehow. I _believe_ init has not 
changed between 5.2.3 and 5.2.5, so I would first reset the VERBOSE 
setting as it cannot affect syslinux anyway. Then make very sure you 
have the correct initmod with your system.

cheers

Erich