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Hello and thanks for the great step by step instruction, even I could follow it :) . But I still have problem to boot my ALIX2D3/32GB CF after done all the step. I use a Ubuntu 9.10 VMware machine to prepare the CF. My CF ends up as /dev/sde and maybe thats why it does not work. As I did say, all the steps works great. I had to change a few to get it right for my setup, but maybe my changes did break to GRUB bootloader for the ALIX2D3. This is all command I use in my setup (Ubuntu VMware with CF at /dev/sde) to install the Debian onto the CF.

Please, can someone give me a clue or tell me why the GRUB seems to stop loading. I add the serial output to this post too.

Here is all command (I’v cut out the fdisk followup questions)
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sudo su -
dmesg -> Gives: [sde] 62537328 512-byte logical blocks: (32.0 GB/29.8 GiB)
umount /dev/sde1 -> because Ubuntu autoinstalls the CF
fdisk /dev/sde -> when finished, p shows: /dev/sde1 * 1 3877 31264096+ 83 Linux
apt-get update
apt-get install mbr
install-mbr /dev/sde
mkfs.ext2 /dev/sde1
apt-get install debootstrap binutils
mkdir /mnt/cf -> To have a mount-point
mount /dev/sde1 /mnt/cf
debootstrap –verbose –arch=i386 lenny /mnt/cf http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian
mount –bind /proc /mnt/cf/proc
mount –bind /sys /mnt/cf/sys
chroot /mnt/cf /bin/bash
nano /etc/apt/sources.list -> Add the following lines:
-> deb-src http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian lenny main
-> deb http://www.voyage.hk/dists/experimental ./
wget http://www.voyage.hk/dists/experimental/archive.key
apt-key add archive.key
nano /etc/kernel-img.conf -> Add the following lines:
-> # Kernel image management overrides
-> # See kernel-img.conf(5) for details
-> do_symlinks = yes
-> relative_links = yes
-> do_bootloader = no
-> do_bootfloppy = no
-> do_initrd = yes
-> link_in_boot = no
apt-get update
apt-cache search linux-image
apt-get install linux-image-2.6.30-voyage openssh-server grub locales -> Not the same linux-image as in the article
export LC_ALL=C
dpkg-reconfigure locales -> Choose swedish
nano /etc/modules -> Add the following lines:
-> natsemi
-> lm90
-> w83627hf
-> scx200_acb base=0×810,0×820
-> geodewdt
-> leds-alix
mkdir /boot/grub
cp /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/* /boot/grub
nano /boot/grub/menu.lst -> Add the following lines:
-> serial –speed=38400
-> terminal serial
-> timeout 1
-> default 0
-> title PROBE00000019
-> root (hd0,0)
-> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 console=ttyS0,38400n8
-> initrd /initrd.img
nano /etc/inittab -> Commented out the following lines:
-> # 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
-> # 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
-> # 3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
-> # 4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
-> # 5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
-> # 6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6
nano /etc/inittab -> Add the following lines:
-> T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 38400
nano /etc/fstab -> Add the following lines:
-> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
-> /dev/hda1 / ext2 noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
-> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime 0 0
-> tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime 0 0
-> tmpfs /var/run tmpfs defaults 0 0
-> tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults 0 0
-> tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs defaults 0 0
nano /etc/network/interfaces -> Add the following lines:
-> auto lo
-> iface lo inet loopback
-> auto eth0
-> iface eth0 inet dhcp
exit
echo ‘(hd0) /dev/sde’ > /mnt/cf/boot/grub/device.map
grub-install –root-directory=/mnt/cf/ /dev/sde

The last two lines might be where I have done wrong, but if I try in any other way, I get an error when I issue the last command telling me that it cant find the device or that it cant figure out the device format (depending on which [sde] I change).

Here is how the bootup runs :(
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PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.99
640 KB Base Memory
261120 KB Extended Memory

01F0 Master 044A ELITE PRO CF CARD 32GB
Phys C/H/S 62041/16/63 Log C/H/S 3892/255/63 LBA
GRUB loading.

[Cursor ends here]
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Please, please please. Im a newbe to Linux and I don’t understand all commands. But I know that there is a couple of step from BIOS, mbr and bootloader and then the OS (maybe I missed some step). I can understand that if something points ‘wrong’ in this process, ALIX will for sure stop. Maybe I should change some sde/sdb/sda somewhere or maybe there is as easy that this Debian will not work on a 32GB CF?? I’m stuck with my ALIX and that sad . . .

Best Regards
- Per Håkansson

I did the same as you, Pierre B and I too end up at GRUB loading. I’m trying to modify the last lines with different dev’s. Yes, i’m i newbe to this. I’m not sure what I do in the two last lines.

Should sdx in “(hd0) /dev/sdx” be pointing to my ‘installation CF device’ id (=sde) or should it point to the device in which ALIX will mount the CF (= maybe sdb)?

I have the same Q also for the last line “grub-install –root-directory=/mnt/cf/ /dev/sdx”, should it be my installation CF (= sde) or the ALIX startup device and maybe as describe in the text (sdb).

I have no clue what device name my CF will have when I have it installed in the ALIX2D3 and when it starts up.

Maybe there is other command which have to be changed, like format sde and ‘mount /dev/sde1 …’, because my ‘preparation system’ uses /dev/sde as the name of my CF. I have no clue what the dev. name of my CF will be when (if) I get the ALIX to boot into Debian.

When it stops at GRUB bootloader, I assume it fails because some pointer points to wrong physical dev. or logical path-name to the CF disk.

Best Regards
- Per Håkansson

I am asking because I am not currently successful loading the OS on my Alix 2d3. It stalls after GRUB loading, please wait…

Great howto just a word of warning if your using debian squeeze or ubuntu 9.10 they have grub2 installed so the

grub-install –root-directory=/mnt/cf/ /dev/sdb

Looks like it works but it doesn’t

Hope that saves you many wasted hours :)

I had (not knowing why) to e2fsck the created filesystem in order to make it work