[Soekris] net6501, booting from USB, NetBSD install
I have a net6501, and updated the firmware to 1.41c. I have an mSATA SSD (bought from Soekris), which seems to be recogized. I am trying to boot off USB, and have tried 698G drive - hangs (apparent known issue) IDE USB adapator with 111G drive - not recognized by BIOS 8G thumbdrive - shows up, but booting pauses for a while and just says failed: 8G failure: 81: USB 01 Xlt -2-32 Mbyte boot 81 No Boot device available, enter monitor. comBIOS Monitor. Press ? for help. It takes about 14s from 'boot 81' to the error. Presumably 80 is the (emtpy) mSATA drive. My flash drive contained: hand-constructed bootable image, with NetBSD mbr, ffvs1 with bootxx_ffsv1, and bits trom installcd filesystem and then just to make sure, I used ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.1/images/NetBSD-6.1-i386-install.img.gz written uncompressed instead. Same behavior. I am using the Soekris-provided 3A power supply. I will keep trying, and probably also try PXE booting. Does the boot-from-USB bios code have any particular requirements? ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501, booting from USB, NetBSD install
On 8/14/13 10:34 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: I have a net6501, and updated the firmware to 1.41c. I have an mSATA SSD (bought from Soekris), which seems to be recogized. I am trying to boot off USB, and have tried [---] Does the boot-from-USB bios code have any particular requirements? I booted (and installed) from the official (or should that me quasi-official?) NetBSD/amd64 6.0 image on my net6501 with the 1.41a (I think) firmware. I am unsure what factors are interesting with regards to the USB memory stick, but if you'd like me to post any kind of output from it, then feel free to post relevant command line(s). The USB stick I used was one of those SanDisk Fit USB Drive which I bought from Soekris. /Jan ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501, booting from USB, NetBSD install
Following up to myself, I then tried a different USB/IDE adaptor: A newer CablesToGo IDE/SATA adaptor seemed to work, and resulted in the second line below. #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE Soekris USB Expansion ROM ver. 1.01 20111203 81: USB 01 Xlt -2-32 Mbyte 81: USB 01 ST3120026A Xlt 1024-255-63 117 Gbyte0 11 #+END_EXAMPLE Booting was fine; I just had to drop to the boot prompt and 'consdev com0'. Installation of NetBSD 6.1 on the mSATA SSD (as wd0) was then uneventful. Curiously, after booting NetBSD from wd0, the pesky Verbatim thumbdrive was recognized and worked just fine. In case anyone is curious, my collected notes are at: http://www.lexort.com/blog/net5501.html Greg Troxel g...@work.lexort.com ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
