Re: [Soekris] Net 5501-70 Dead With Red Flashing Error Light

2015-06-19 Thread Christopher Hilton
On Jun 19, 2015, at 3:28 AM, loppefaaret loppefaa...@gmail.com wrote: i beleive there is a limit to the size of the booting partition on the 5501. try seperating /boot on the first primary partition, with less than 2gb if you haven't tried that already. @loppefaaret: He’s running OpenBSD,

Re: [Soekris] Net 5501-70 Dead With Red Flashing Error Light

2015-06-19 Thread andrew fabbro
Auto partitioning. Root is less than 1GB. On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 7:12 AM, Christopher Hilton ch...@vindaloo.com wrote: On Jun 19, 2015, at 3:28 AM, loppefaaret loppefaa...@gmail.com wrote: i beleive there is a limit to the size of the booting partition on the 5501. try seperating /boot on

Re: [Soekris] Net 5501-70 Dead With Red Flashing Error Light

2015-06-19 Thread loppefaaret
i beleive there is a limit to the size of the booting partition on the 5501. try seperating /boot on the first primary partition, with less than 2gb if you haven't tried that already. Den 18-06-2015 kl. 19:34 skrev andrew fabbro: Revisiting this 5501-70...I subsequently got a new power supply

Re: [Soekris] Net 5501-70 Dead With Red Flashing Error Light

2015-06-19 Thread andrew fabbro
8GB. Installing works just fine...it's booting that's the issue. I've tried two different 6GB Kingston CF cards. I could try a smaller one but I have not read that overall size of the card makes a difference. Any opinion on the POST (commas)? I'm wondering if that is saying something. On Fri,

Re: [Soekris] Net 5501-70 Dead With Red Flashing Error Light

2015-06-19 Thread ED Fochler
http://soekris.com/Issue0006/ The kingston CF cards have specifically made it into previous threads as being troublesome on the 4801 and 5501. I personally am all for moving to SATA SSD on the 5501 if you care about it actually working. SATA is a much better hard drive interface than CF, and

Re: [Soekris] Net 5501-70 Dead With Red Flashing Error Light

2015-06-19 Thread Christopher Hilton
On Jun 19, 2015, at 10:33 AM, andrew fabbro and...@fabbro.org wrote: 8GB. Installing works just fine...it's booting that's the issue. I've tried two different 6GB Kingston CF cards. I could try a smaller one but I have not read that overall size of the card makes a difference. Any

Re: [Soekris] Net 5501-70 Dead With Red Flashing Error Light

2015-06-19 Thread Christopher Hilton
On Jun 19, 2015, at 10:15 AM, andrew fabbro and...@fabbro.org wrote: Auto partitioning. Root is less than 1GB. Hrm… How big is the CF? My 5501-60 is running OpenBSD 5.7 from a 4GB SanDisk Ultra, I bought two of the cards. One has FreeBSD 9.3-Stable; and I installed OpenBSD 5.7 on the other