Re: Need some guidance booting OpenBSD on an ALIX device,

[baldoni]

I've always had consistent success with a crossover cable and ssh.  Serial
connections with Wrap and Alix can be hit and miss and it's hard to see
why it worked yesterday but not today.  You may consider spending the
pesos on the cable instead of coffee, cigarettes or aspirin.

Are you in BA?  What a lovely country you have there.


Gian

Re: UNIX way of undeleting files?

[baldoni]

Now, I'm sure I'm interpreting the word remove improperly here.  But not
to put too fine a point on it, the inode is removed?

Is it that link between the inod number and the file that is removed?

In this arena I am truly ignorant, but nonetheless not blissed.



Gian

Re: OpenBSD 4.2 not booting on alix2c2

[baldoni]

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 The alix board is straight out of the box -
  with whichever bios PC Engines had on it when it was shipped out a
 week
  ago.

 try a different bios, there have been 6 new versions so far this month.



Thanks for your help.

The problem was that I had the CF plugged into my secondary hard drive
slot when installing the OS (wd1), then trying to run it on wd0. For the
sake of personal comfort I did a re-install in the primary slot after
which every thing ran beautifully.


John

Re: OpenBSD 4.2 not booting on alix2c2 SOLVED

[baldoni]

A posting in a previous thread finally hit me this morning.  The problem
was that when OpenBSD was installed on the CF, the CF was in the secondary
IDE slot.  Then when being run it was placed in the primary IDE slot on
the alix board.  The alix was expecting wd0a in the fstab, and was fiding
wd1a...  The boot worked anyway back in the desktop (with error) because
the CF was going back in the secondary IDE slot.


Gian

OpenBSD 4.2 not booting on alix2c2

[baldoni]

Hello.  I've installed OpenBSD 4.2 on a 512M CF for use with the alix2c2.

The system boots with problems (but works fine so far) when the CF is
hooked up in my desktop with an IDE adapter.  The error message I get is
in the dmesg below.

But the OS won't even boot in the alix board.  And there's nothing in
var/log/messages.  A null modem cable is on order for me, so I have no
info yet through minicom.  The alix board is straight out of the box -
with whichever bios PC Engines had on it when it was shipped out a week
ago.

The lack of anything in /var/log/messages is what tells me the system
isn't booting.  Also I can ping neither vr0 nor vr1 on the alix.  With the
same card booted on the desktop I can see the network fine.

The packages installed on the card (all loaded into /) are bsd,
base42.tgz, etc42.tgz and man42.tgz only.

Again, the dmesg below is from the successful boot of the CF card in a
desktop machine.

Any suggestions on what the problem is, and possibly a resolution?  I've
scanned these archives and looked through about a dozen sites on how to
install OpenBSD on a CF for Wrap and Soekris.  One possible reason I've
found is that the CF card may need to be UDMA.  It isn't, and the alix
documentation only mentions DMA.

In the meantime, has anyone had better luck using flashdist as a means of
installing?

Here's the dmesg:

Nov 27 13:52:06 alix syslogd: start
Nov 27 13:52:06 alix /bsd: OpenBSD 4.2 (GENERIC) #375: Tue Aug 28 10:38:44
MDT 2007
Nov 27 13:52:06 alix /bsd:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
Nov 27 13:52:06 alix /bsd: cpu0: Intel Pentium III (GenuineIntel
686-class, 512KB L2 cache) 448 MHz Nov 27 13:52:06 alix /bsd: cpu0:
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE
Nov 27 13:52:06 alix /bsd: real mem  = 402219008 (383MB)
Nov 27 13:52:07 alix /bsd: avail mem = 381022208 (363MB)
Nov 27 13:52:07 alix /bsd: mainbus0 at root
Nov 27 13:52:07 alix /bsd: bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 07/20/99,
BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xffe90, SMBIOS rev. 2.2 @ 0xfb5f0 (83 entries)
Nov 27 13:52:07 alix /bsd: bios0: vendor Dell Computer Corporation version
A09 date 07/20/99
Nov 27 13:52:07 alix /bsd: bios0: Dell Computer Corporation Precision
WorkStation 410 MT
Nov 27 13:52:07 alix /bsd: apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
Nov 27 13:52:07 alix /bsd: apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
Nov 27 13:52:07 alix /bsd: apm0: flags 30102 dobusy 0 doidle 1
Nov 27 13:52:07 alix /bsd: pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf/0x1
Nov 27 13:52:07 alix /bsd: pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @
0xfcac0/192 (10 entries)
Nov 27 13:52:07 alix /bsd: pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:07:0
(Intel 82371FB ISA rev 0x00)
Nov 27 13:52:07 alix /bsd: pcibios0: PCI bus #2 is the last bus
Nov 27 13:52:07 alix /bsd: bios0: ROM list: 0xc/0xf800 0xcf800/0x800
0xd/0x800 0xd0800/0x3800
Nov 27 13:52:07 alix /bsd: cpu0 at mainbus0
Nov 27 13:52:08 alix /bsd: pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
(no bios)
Nov 27 13:52:08 alix /bsd: pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 Intel 82443BX
AGP rev 0x03
Nov 27 13:52:08 alix /bsd: ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 Intel 82443BX
AGP rev 0x03
Nov 27 13:52:08 alix /bsd: pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
Nov 27 13:52:08 alix /bsd: piixpcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 Intel
82371AB PIIX4 ISA rev 0x02
Nov 27 13:52:08 alix /bsd: pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1 Intel 82371AB
IDE rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to
compatibility
Nov 27 13:52:08 alix /bsd: wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: SAMSUNG
SP0822N
Nov 27 13:52:08 alix /bsd: wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 32253MB, 66055248
sectors
Nov 27 13:52:08 alix /bsd: atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 1
Nov 27 13:52:08 alix /bsd: scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
Nov 27 13:52:08 alix /bsd: cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: TDK, CDRW8432,
1.05 SCSI0 5/cdrom removable
Nov 27 13:52:09 alix /bsd: wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA
mode 2
Nov 27 13:52:09 alix /bsd: cd0(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
Nov 27 13:52:10 alix /bsd: wd1 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: SanDisk
SDCFB-512
Nov 27 13:52:10 alix /bsd: wd1: 4-sector PIO, LBA, 488MB, 1000944 sectors
Nov 27 13:52:11 alix /bsd: wd1(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
Nov 27 13:52:12 alix /bsd: uhci0 at pci0 dev 7 function 2 Intel 82371AB
USB rev 0x01: irq 11
Nov 27 13:52:13 alix /bsd: piixpm0 at pci0 dev 7 function 3 Intel 82371AB
Power rev 0x02: SMBus disabled
Nov 27 13:52:13 alix /bsd: vga1 at pci0 dev 14 function 0 NVIDIA GeForce4
MX 4000 rev 0xc1
Nov 27 13:52:13 alix /bsd: wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100
emulation)
Nov 27 13:52:13 alix /bsd: xl0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 3Com 3c905B
100Base-TX rev 0x00: irq 11, address 00:c0:4f:60:cb:b2Nov 27 13:52:14
alix /bsd: exphy0 at xl0 phy 24: 3Com internal media interface
Nov 27 13:52:14 alix /bsd: ppb1 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 DEC 21152
PCI-PCI rev 0x03
Nov 27 13:52:14 alix /bsd: pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
Nov 27 13:52:14 alix /bsd: ral0 at