Headless Install via console

RouterOS General
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I have a x64 board which doesn’t have a graphical interface so all installs have to be completed using a serial console port.

Is it possible to use the X64 image and install in this manner? initial boot is fine as I see the isolinux loading, but then the serial port goes dead one the initrd image start loading.

I updated the isolinux.cfg with console=tty0 console=ttys0,115200n8 but that still did not work.

Any thoughts?

label system
kernel linux
append load_ramdisk=1 initrd=initrd.rgz root=/dev/ram0 console=tty0 console=ttys0,115200n8

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So this issue is fixed. I had apparently used a lowercase s in the config instead of upper case.

However still cannot install as I am getting “no harddrive found” as the apu2 boards are SATA and apparently not going to be supported by Mikrotik. At least the is the gist I have gotten when searching the forums.