Re: [cobalt-users] Raq4 - Kernel 2.4 Upgrade Woes [UPDATE]

["Josh Trutwin" <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> No go, never gets past "First stage kernel:  Decompressing - done".
>
> Have you tried connecting a null modem serial cable to the serial port
> and  see what it's spewing?  Might give more specific info where it's
> falling  down...
>
> Params are 115200 N-8-1.  I'm guessing you've got either a bad ROM image
>  which can't properly uncompress to start executing, or the ROM kernel
> is  not identical to the on-disk kernel, and thus the handoff from ROM
> (stage  1) to disk (stage 2) is broken.

Yeah, I've connected a serial cable.

Here is my first post:
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2003-April/089114.html

This goes through what I've been trying to do (install Debian or Slackware
on a Raq4r) along with some helpful suggestions from the list which
unfortunately hasn't solved the problem.

Thx.

Josh