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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:11:18 +0100
From: Der Tiger <der.tiger.alpine@arcor.de>
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CC: Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi>, 
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Subject: [alpine-devel] Re: Alpine on Alix
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ReHi Jeremy,

Thank you for your mail and the syslinux.cfg enclosed!

>From what I gather from your syslinux.cfg, it looks like the serial
interface on Alix boards is causing problems with Alpine. I'd never have
guessed that.

I'm going to give it a try as soon as my Alix is available for testing,
again.

Kind Regards, Tiger

ps. Thanks to Timo for his input and to Nangel for his assistance, too!


Am 2012-11-13 15:27, schrieb Jeremy Thomerson:
> Der,
> 
>   I had to have help getting my Alix going, too.  nangel gave me a
> syslinux.cfg file that made mine work.  After making my bootable CF
> card, I edited the file and then installed the CF card in the Alix and
> it worked.  Here's the file:
> 
> rt01 [/media/sda1]# cat syslinux.cfg
> serial 0 38400
> timeout 20
> prompt 1
> default grsec
> label grsec
>    kernel /boot/grsec
>    append initrd=/boot/grsec.gz alpine_dev=sda1:vfat
> modules=loop,squashfs,cramfs,sd-mod,usb-storage console=ttyS0,38400
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi
> <mailto:timo.teras@iki.fi>> wrote:
> 
>     On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:51:21 +0100 Der Tiger
>     <der.tiger.alpine@arcor.de <mailto:der.tiger.alpine@arcor.de>> wrote:
> 
>     > Some time ago, I tried to get Alpine running on an Alix 2C3 system,
>     > which is nearly identical to the 2D3, but the kernel (I suppose 2.6)
>     > was crashing constantly. Most crashes occurred when I started larger
>     > applications like Asterisk. BIOS version was 0.99h, the latest version
>     > available, and I tested with MFGPT workaround enabled and disabled.
> 
>     I have multiple ALIX 2d3 boxes here, and most of them run Alpine 2.4.x
>     and Asterisk 10. No problems.
> 
>     > May I ask which kernel you are using? Does Alpine require certain
>     > kernel configuration parameters to run stable on Alix boards?
> 
>     I'm on kernel 3.3.x. and 3.4.x mostly.
> 
>     No special configuration needed. Except for the one box where I use the
>     speaker output as GPIO. But even on that box it's done with sysfs
>     calls instead of boot params.
> 
>     > I am quite sure my Alix board is _not_ defective, because there have
>     > bin no issues running Voyage Linux and fli4l. Due to the problems
>     > mentioned, the Alix was replaced by a considerably more powerful
>     > Intel DN2800MT, but I would like to reactivate the Alix board for
>     > supplementary purposes.
> 
>     - Timo
> 
> 


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