Problem booting 5.0.3 / 5.0.4 from Intel d201GLY

Thu, 1970-01-01 00:00
Paul Posts: 3 Joined: 2007-09-05	Hi, I installed both 5.0.3 and 5.0.4 on a D201GLY board (IDE HD / 256Mb / USB CDROM). I used the default settings on all screens. Trying to boot all I get is: Loading iMedia ... I tried to use to get the grub menu but that does not work either. Any ideas on how to get this to work? Best regards, Paul Holthuizen login to post comments

Wed, 2007-09-05 10:28	Have a look at my posting
stevens Posts: 7 Joined: 2007-05-29	Have a look at my posting "Booting 5.0.1 from on Geode LX results in ". ..." http://www.imedialinux.com/forum/booting_5_0_1_from_cf_results_in Probably a similar problem. The default "grub.conf" set up a serial console. I think this is probably what is failing Michael login to post comments

Wed, 2007-09-05 10:56	I did that
Paul Posts: 3 Joined: 2007-09-05	Hi Michael, I did that, but I cannot get 'into' grub.conf. If I right after the installation select 'shell' I end up with no /boot directory, and after booting I am not able to break into grub. I also tried to manually change parameters in Grub (add the ide=nodma option) during install but that did not help either.... Thanks for your reaction, Paul login to post comments

Wed, 2007-09-05 12:05	Solved!
Paul Posts: 3 Joined: 2007-09-05	Michael, You're brilliant! As soon as I found grub.conf (in /mnt/sysimage/boot/grub, should I have known that??) and removed the line starting with serial it booted. Thank you! Paul login to post comments

Tue, 2007-11-06 08:20

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After installation I get the dreaded ". ..." message as well. Installed to a 40GB IDE HDD on the D201GLY. Now, I see you have solved that problem, but I get ". ..." immediately after boot, so I don't know how I can get to a console or into the Grub menu (pressing ESC doesn't work). Ho can I solve this? EDIT: Hahah, well it seems I answered my own question in record time. Booted into DamnSmallLinux liveCD, mounted my HDD, "sudo nano"ed my grub.conf and edited out the line starting with serial. Boots like a charm!