Hi,
I am Jamshaid Anwar and I am using Asterisk as PBX software to demonstrate VOIP on embedded platform for my student project . The embedded platform available with me is Soekris Net5501-70. In order to run asterisk i want to use Astlinux as operating system but i m unable to run it on net5501.Initially for my practice i have made asterisk PBX server using redhat on my PC and achieved all the basic features . but now i am unable to boot net 5501 from usb or from CF card on net5501 . as i am new to asterisk and tech world so can i have any tutorial or guide in detail to run Astlinux as operating system on soekris net5501 ?
I had astlinux installed on the net5501 about a week ago. From memory all I did was to download the vmware player to my desktop, insert a CF card into the laptop, map the CF to a new virtual machine, download the astlinux iso, attach it to the virtual CD on vmware player, then boot up the vm. Install astlinux onto the CF card on the vm and when done, put the CF card into the net5501 and boot it.
I dont recall if I had to do anything else to cover the serial console or not. I ended up abandoning it as I needed to get a lot more software on (namely freepbx, squid, apache and a few others) and after about a week of hunting, found that the slackware distro was about the only way to go. The install for that was more involved (done using PXE), but I got there in the end.
Stick with it and google for answers. There’s a lot of information out there, but mostly it’s out of date. I found that any of the recent redhad flavours were all for 686 even though they said they were i386. This was the same for most other major linux distros.
hi . i have burned the image in CF card now . but net 5501 is unable to recognise it . when ever i boot it i get this kind of dispaly on my tera term screen .
i am using windows 7 currently
and i used physdiskwrite software to burn it into the CF card.
i manually removed partitions the cf card using cmd and using cmd i accessed physdiskwrite too and burned it into the cf card …
I would have thought that would work. I do recall I used fdisk on linux 1st to remove all partitions but I don’t think that should make a difference. What distro of linux are you putting onto the CF ?
What image are you putting on it to ? ISO, img
I ended up setting up a PXE boot and manually built slackware. It took quite a while to sort it out, but it works now. Unfortunatly I didnt keep any records of the steps I took and the resulting image is too large to put on the net (it’s on a 16Gb CF)
i am putting astlinux-1.0.3 into it and its in .img format.
the problem which i understood of that was the bios was not updated .
yesterday it took me 8 hours in parallel to update the BIOS but some how i was able to update it too . this wass the output which i got when it got updated.
download
Start sending file using XMODEM/CRC protocol.
C
File downloaded succesfully, size 784 Blocks.
flashupdate
Updating BIOS Flash ,…,… Done.
when i did the hard boot after that it recognized the card and it started instaling all the things automatically and it ended when it asked me my login id and password .
i assumed that this installation is done and switched it off . but when today i switched it on again , it is although detecting cf card and starting all the processes but after some time , the processing halts and i get these kind of errors displayed…
(i am showing only last few lines here which i assumed would have error . i can show you all if you want! )
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 194010436 ns)
Switching to clocksource pit
ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16)
ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16)
ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16)
ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16)
ata1: reset failed, giving up
RAMDISK: gzip image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) on device 1:0.
devtmpfs: mounted
Freeing unused kernel memory: 296k freed
AstLinux medium not found.
/bin/sh: can’t access tty; job control turned off
is there some problem with its timing or some thing ??
can i have any advice on it ??
hi,
i guess i have found the answer here.
the problem is was that cf card don’t function well as a primary hard drive. i stumbled across this answer accidentally when i burned the O.S image on a usb and CF card both and plugged both usb and cf card and hard booted net 5501 . at the point where it used to halt, usb blinked for a couple of times and it loaded the image … and it started working
now in order to write things on system, i was trying to make this usb port work. i plug a usb in the port and then give the command ‘genkd’ . but i get this type of error …
pbx ~ # usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
scsi3 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0
scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access Kingston DT 101 II PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] 7936000 512-byte logical blocks: (4.06 GB/3.78 GiB)
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdc: sdc1
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
pbx ~ # genkd
A filesystem on /dev/sda1 is mounted. Aborting.
pbx ~ #
hi.
i have found the answer, i thought i should mention it here too.
i was not giving the command a proper path to follow to burn all the data on usb …
in my case the correct command was ‘genkd /dev/sdc1’ (without quotes) … so when i gave this command . it started working. Any ways thanx for your help again …
