Re: Soekris Net6501 install from USB stick newbie issues - SOLVED

["g.lister" <g.lister%nodeunit.com@localhost>]

On 01/27/2014 06:27 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> "g.lister" <g.lister%nodeunit.com@localhost> writes:
>
> > OK I installed minicom and changed the baud rate to 9600 and remove
> > the hardware flow control so no hardware or software flow
> > control. Copied the image again as every time I go into the blank
> > screen the soekris cannot read the USB stick after and tried using
> > minicom for the job unfortunately with the same result -> blank screen
> > with a cursor in the top left corner.
> >
> > I am not sure if I should try amd64... the CPU is 32 bits not 64...
>
> I tried to do more or less what you are doing, and I found that a USB
> stick was either flaky or did not work and when I used an actual disk
> and an older USB/umass/IDE adaptor, it worked reliably.
>
> As for i386/amd64: the cpu is either, but soekris supports the box as
> i386 only.  People say that amd64 works too.  I'm running mine i386.

I solved my problem... I had to put the image on the USB stick drop to 
boot prompt and run 'consdev com0' not com1 as I was doing, because of 
the PDF manual for the board... oh well I wanted to learn something I 
have already :). I am staring at the install screen now. I even had a 
prompt to choose the type of terminal really handy stuff..

Thanks for NetBSD!
George