Installing Alpine 2.7.2 on a Jetway NF9I-2550 system
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Sat, 2014-01-04 13:32
orca
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- 2014-01-04
Hi,
i am an Alpine Linux newbie.
I tried to boot Alpine 2.7.2 from an USB stick on my new Jetway NF9I-2550 system.
I created the USB content using as described here: http://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Create_a_Bootable_USB.
Everything works fine until 'Loading hardware drivers' appears on the screen.
After this, the system hangs up.
I tried using Ubuntu 12.10 LTS to boot on the system which works fine.
I tried using den kernel boot parameter debug. But i cannot see, what is the problem.
What can i do next?
Nobody any idea?
How can i debug the boot process?
Can i prevent alpine using a graphical mode and use VGA instead?
Has anybody some experience with Jetway boards?
If i cannot get any help i have to use another distro.
Thanks
Armin
Hi,
I tried to modify the boot parameters.
I removed "quiet" and added "nomodeset".
But i cannot get any information about the cause of the system freeze.
Nobody seems to have an idea how to solve (or even to handle) the problem.
So i tried IPFire (http://www.ipfire.org). And i was able to install without any problems within one hour.
The feature list of Alpine Linux sounds very good, but it does not work for me.
Goodbye
Armin
Hi,
could you please report the issue on our bugtracker (bugs.alpinelinux.org)?
Thank you!
[EDIT]
Using a console redirect allowed me to boot my machine, actually it always finished booting I just couldn't see it. If I waited a minute after the hang, I could blindly log in as root and set eth0 up, then ping it. If you can have a serial port, depending on your BIOS setting as well try the following at the boot and see if you get data on the serial console
my serial speed is 19200 yours maybe different
If the serial is too big of a pain or you just want to test if yours is just a video issue, after the hang wait a few seconds and blindly type in the following and see if you can ping it
of course using a free IP on your subnet.
Hope that Helps
[/EDIT]
I have this same issue on a Tyan S5211 board and have yet to find a work around. I did log a bug https://bugs.alpinelinux.org/issues/2616.
Hopefully someone finds a work around or fix soon.
Thanks,
Dave