Installing on Alix board

Installing on Alix board
 Thu, 1970-01-01 00:00
dconnrt
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 Joined: 2007-10-26
Hi, I have one of the newer PC Engines ALIX (1C) boards (sound, VGA on-board and a Compact Flash for storage). I've tried to plug in a USB CDROM drive and install directly on to the Compact Flash but the ALIX board doesn't seem to want to boot from USB CDROM (I tried two drives). So I booted iMediaLinux onto a P4 machine with no hard drive and only a 2Gbyte compact flash connected via USB - it worked and I was able to install iMedia Linux onto the CF but the ALIX board wouldn't boot iMediaLinux fully (it did load grub and show the iMediaLinux splash page but it got stuck. How has anyoue out there actually installed iMediaLinux to get it running on an ALIX board? Is there a way to go "full screen" during the boot to see what the actual problem is while booting (I can't see much because the iMediaLinux splash page only shows a couple of lines of the boot stuff. thanks for any help! Derek
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 Tue, 2007-11-13 11:47 When you install on CF as
panic
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When you install on CF as usb the boot loader is setup for usb. On ALIX the CF is IDE. So you need to enter grub menu (ESC) and

press E key to edit the kernel line and change root=/dev/sda1 to root=/dev/hda1.

 

After boot you can edit /boot/grub/grub.conf to have the settings saved for next boot.

 


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