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lohmueller
25-11-2005, 22:25
Sorry for my bad english...

Im trying to boot from a Debian Sarge installation on an external memory-stick.

I installed debian and it works great when I use chroot.

I set the memory-stick as boot-device:
nvram set boot_dev="/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1"
nvram commit

When I reboot the system boots from memory-stick. The light on the stick is flashing and the system is not reachable.

I'm pretty sure the debian-configuration is incomplete. This is what I configured:

/etc/fstab
/proc /proc proc defaults
devfs /dev devfs rw 0 0
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 / ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 none swap sw 0 0

/etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto vlan0
iface vlan0 inet static
pre-up ifconfig eth0 up
pre-up vconfig add eth0 0
address 10.1.1.12
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 10.1.1.10

I have not yet added an ssh-server to the init-scripts since not even ping to 10.1.1.12 works.

Is there a kernel-module missing? If yes, can I copy the modules from flash and add a line to /etc/modules?

I have no serial-console available. So it's very hard to find the problem. Please help me!

Many thanks