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norbolt
Mar 27, 2013Aspirant
Debian Squeeze/Wheezy on Ultra 2?
Is there a way to get rid of all the netgear stuff and just install vanilla Debian on the Ultra 2? I connected a serial adapter and I'm able to fiddle with the BIOS and select a USB stick as the st...
norbolt
Mar 28, 2013Aspirant
That seems like it was exactly what was happening. The boot menu was drawing in a mode the serial console didn't like very well. My solution was to repeatedly bang the escape key during boot, while holding down the backup button as you said, until the console said "Aborted." and "boot: "
At that prompt, "install video=off console=ttyS0,9600n8" kicked it into serial install mode, with working menus and everything. Yes, for some reason the RNDP200U seems to run at 9600 baud by default. Also, increasing the baud rate in the BIOS gave random garbage at random points on the screen, so I kept it at 9600. video=off may not be strictly needed, but it has the nice side effect of disabling the screen TTY's in inittab by default, and I can't use those without a screen anyway.
I put /boot on ext3 on the internal USB storage, / on an inserted harddrive and made sure to run grub-install on /dev/sdc (which was the internal USB) instead of /dev/sda (the first harddrive).
In short, my RNDP200U now runs Debian Wheezy 64-bit, and I really really really need to run off to bed.
Thanks a bunch! :D
At that prompt, "install video=off console=ttyS0,9600n8" kicked it into serial install mode, with working menus and everything. Yes, for some reason the RNDP200U seems to run at 9600 baud by default. Also, increasing the baud rate in the BIOS gave random garbage at random points on the screen, so I kept it at 9600. video=off may not be strictly needed, but it has the nice side effect of disabling the screen TTY's in inittab by default, and I can't use those without a screen anyway.
I put /boot on ext3 on the internal USB storage, / on an inserted harddrive and made sure to run grub-install on /dev/sdc (which was the internal USB) instead of /dev/sda (the first harddrive).
In short, my RNDP200U now runs Debian Wheezy 64-bit, and I really really really need to run off to bed.
Thanks a bunch! :D
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