[frgeek-michiana] i-Opener

After inspecting the i-Opener I powered it up put on a regular keyboard and managed to get into the bios setup (ctrl-alt-esc rather than delete as the bios splash screen says). It recognizes a hard drive and boots a linux kernel then dies because the kernel is unable to mount the root fs. I think this bios version may have some anti-hacking "features" in it (bios version 05/09/2000-VP4-686-IPC_VIAC-00) that prevent the system from booting from an external HD. I have read some posts discussing ways around this so there may be hope yet short of replacing the bios (about $16). We shouldn't need a HD mounted in the system once we can load a kernel into the sandisk and put on a usb ethernet adapter, but one is needed to load the sandisk and make it bootable. See ya

Mike



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