This is the shotgun approach.... From the people who wrote the bootloader of the stick, this is their 'failsafe' method. We'll se how it works.
With the Siemens running Navigatrix, insert the USB and edit the
syslinux.cfg file on the stick
In the terminal
sudo gedit /media/someting-or-other/syslinux/syslinux.cfgAfter the 28th line...a block of text that looks like;
Quote:
label nx
menu label Navigatrix
kernel /casper/vmlinuz
append boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.gz persistent root_size=100 home_size=500 max_loop=32 ip=frommedia quiet splash
you can cut and paste in the following
Code:
# failsafe
label failsafe
kernel /casper/vmlinuz
append boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.gz persistent root_size=100 home_size=500 max_loop=32 ip=frommedia splash=verbose acpi=off vga=normal noapic nolapic noscsi nopcmcia
The last line (append boot=...) is long and unbroken by a return. Leave a blank line in between the next block that begins:
label esSave the file; unmount the stick and then try to boot the Armada with the BootManager CD and the stick insert. When the Blue screen appears hit the
<esc> until the screen go black and stays black.
At the
boot: enter:
failsafefollowed by the
<enter>It should spew a lot of text across the screen. If it hangs note the last few lines which should tell us where the problem is...'
If...if that flies we can then subtract switches that are turning things off and are unnecessary.
Good luck.
