i just bought a new RB 500, (1st edition, the one with the 11v - to 24v sticker),
i booted it up, and got this, and stops at the Starting Services…
RouterBOOT booter 1.0beta2
RouterBoard 532
CPU frequency: 399 MHz
Memory size: 32 MB
Press any key within 1 seconds to enter setup.
loading kernel … done
loading program into address 0x803F33E0, size 0x00000018 0x70000000
loading program into address 0x80200000, size 0x001D4D90 0x00000001
loading program into address 0x803D6000, size 0x0005F000 0x00000001
done setting up elf image
kernel entry point is 0x803D8040
Starting…
Starting services…
The bootloader is made so that you must first try a different frequency before it could be set permanently, and if you do not apply a frequency permanently, it would fall back to the previous setting on the next power cycle. It is still possible, however, that the board is not working properly on the frequency you’ve applied, so the default (266MHz) CPU frequency can be restored. To do that, turn on the board with the S1 button pressed, then turn off the power, and when you will turn the board on again, it will have CPU frequency set to 266MHz temporarily, so you will have to apply that frequency by issuing the keep cpu frequency command in the loader configuration prompt.
Press any key within 1 seconds to enter setup.
loading kernel from nand… OK
setting up elf image… OK
jumping to kernel code
Starting…
Starting services…
and i’m waiting, and waitnig… - what shall i do?? plz help me
You will get the same effect if you set different serial baud rate in the mikrotik OS and in the boot loader. When you boot router with baud rate 115000 it will stop at Starting Services because in this point it will change baud rate to something else (9600 probably).