//This page is for people - like myself - who wonder whether voyage could work on their fancy ALIX board. I recently got an ALIX.2C3 board and will try to answer this question here.//

=== Executive summary ===

Yes.

=== Details ===

Using voyage-0.5.2.tar.bz2

Following the instructions in the README file I've created a 1GB partition on a 4GB CF card, run the voyage-setup script (from a vanilla kubuntu installation), put the card into the board and it boots up fine.

Things that seem to work:

  * sensors
  * leds
  * watchdog (but needs configuring)
  * reboot



Some things to do (so far):
  * Changing the root password
<code bash>
remountrw
passwd
remountro
</code>
  * Changing the hostname
<code bash>
remountrw
hostname <new host name>
echo "<new host name>" > /etc/hostname
echo "127.0.0.1 <new host name>" > /etc/hosts
remountro
</code>

=== Issues ===

== MFGPT ==
I have a 2C3 and a 3C1. For the 2C3 box a standard install with standard boot options seems to work fine. When I tried an identical boot by moving the CF card to the  3C1 box it was hanging on boot. There is a MFGPT issue with some Alix cards and there is a enable/disable switch in some of the BIOS's, but not mine. So I had to add a kernel parameter as follows:

<code bash>
kernel /vmlinuz root=LABEL=ROOT_FS  console=ttyS0,38400n8 nomfgpt
</code>