Hi It could be a board problem .....
The question becomes which board. The easy way to work it out is to start swapping parts and see what part the problems follow. That only works if you have multiple 4801's, multiple disks / CF cards, multiple lan switches, and multiple DHCP servers (talk about fun). Yesterday afternoon my problem was a partially functional cable (go figure). Bob On Jul 25, 2007, at 11:09 PM, Tom Mazzotta wrote: > Just a followup on the PXE/TFTP boot problems I wrote about > yesterday. After a lot of experimenting I found (by accident) that > my 4801 would boot using only TFTP (w/o NFS). However, it only work > occasionally! To get it to work, I needed to configure the default > boot device to "F0" (ethernet port) using "set bootdrive=F0 80 81" > in the combios. (Previously, I was using the default boot device > parameters and I would ^P to get the monitor screen and type "boot > f0"). Anyway, after cycling to power on the unit anywhere from 6 or > 7 to more than a dozen times, it would boot properly. The way I > knew when it would work was by "pxe_open" values reported by the > bootstrap loader. When I saw "pxe_open: gateway ip: 0.0.0.0", I > know it was going to fail! However, on occasion, it would say > "pxe_open: gateway ip: 192.168.168.1", which is the correct > gateway address on my LAN, and in this instance it would boot > correctly. > > QUESTION #1 - Is this normal? Could there be a h/w problem w/ my > 4801 or my LAN, etc...? > > Then after going thru a standard FreeBSD install, I get the errors: > ad0: setting up DMA failed > ata0: FAILURE - NON aligned DMA transfer attempted > > Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev > The creation of the filesystem will be aborted. > > QUESTION #2 - Did I fry my drive by cycling the power so many > times, or might something else be wrong? > > Thanks! > -tm > ________________________________ > From: Tom Mazzotta > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Unable to install FreeBSD on 4801 via PXE/TFTP > > I have been trying to use the procedure on the ultradesic.com > website to install FreeBSD 6.2 on to a net4801-60. I have basically > tried 4 permutations of the install using the boot image file > downloaded from Ultradesic vs. patching the standard bootonly ISO > image w/ recompiled PXEBOOT, LOADER, and KERNEL files (all built > according to the Ultradesic procedure and sample config's). I also > tried using FreeBSD vs. Windows XPP (w/Tftpd32) as my DHCP/TFTP > server. No success with any of the scenarios. Typically, the > following is what I see: > > comBIOS ver. 1.31 20070408 Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Soekris > Engineering. > net4801 > 0256 Mbyte Memory CPU Geode SC1100 267 Mhz > Pri Mas FUJITSU MHN2100AT LBA Xlt 1024-255-63 9820 > Mbyte > Slot Vend Dev ClassRev Cmd Stat CL LT HT Base1 Base2 Int > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > 0:00:0 1078 0001 06000000 0107 0280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000 > 0:06:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E101 A0000000 10 > 0:07:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E201 A0001000 10 > 0:08:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E301 A0002000 10 > 0:10:0 104C AC23 06040002 0107 0210 08 3F 01 00000000 00000000 > 0:18:2 100B 0502 01018001 0005 0280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000 > 0:19:0 0E11 A0F8 0C031008 0117 0280 08 38 00 A0003000 00000000 11 > 1:00:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000D001 A4000000 05 > 1:01:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000D101 A4001000 11 > > comBIOS Monitor. Press ? for help. >> boot f0 > NSC DP83815/DP83816 Fast Ethernet UNDI, v1.03 > Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 National Semiconductor Corporation > All rights reserved. > Pre-boot eXecution Environment PXE-2.0 (build 082) > Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation > > CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 00 24 C8 B4 F8 > CLIENT IP: 192.168.168.11 MASK: 255.255.255.0 DHCP IP: > 192.168.168.38 > GATEWAY IP: 192.168.168.1 > PXE Loader 1.00 > Building the boot loader arguments > Relocating the loader and the BTX > Starting the BTX loader > Consoles: internal video/keyboard > BIOS drive C: is disk0 > PXE version 2.1, real mode entry point @9e64:00f6 > BIOS 639kB/261120kB available memory > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > , Tue Jul 24 17:18:00 EDT 2007) > pxe_open: server addr: 192.168.168.38 > pxe_open: server path: /pxeroot > pxe_open: gateway ip: 0.0.0.0 > NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60 > \ > can't load 'kernel' > Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. > OK > ------- > By examining the log from Tftp32, I can tell the PXEBOOT was sent > to the box, but it doesn't get an further: > > Rcvd DHCP Discover Msg for IP 0.0.0.0, Mac 00:00:24:C8:B4:F8 [24/07 > 23:05:12.250] > DHCP: proposed address 192.168.168.12 [24/07 23:05:14.468] > Rcvd DHCP Discover Msg for IP 0.0.0.0, Mac 00:00:24:C8:B4:F8 [24/07 > 23:05:14.468] > DHCP: proposed address 192.168.168.12 [24/07 23:05:15.984] > Rcvd DHCP Rqst Msg for IP 0.0.0.0, Mac 00:00:24:C8:B4:F8 [24/07 > 23:05:18.421] > Previously allocated address 192.168.168.12 acked [24/07 23:05:20.468] > Connection received from 192.168.168.12 on port 2070 [24/07 > 23:05:20.781] > Read request for file <boot\pxeboot>. Mode octet [24/07 23:05:20.781] > OACK: <tsize=219136,> [24/07 23:05:20.781] > Using local port 1679 [24/07 23:05:20.781] > Peer returns ERROR <TFTP Aborted> -> aborting transfer [24/07 > 23:05:20.781] > Connection received from 192.168.168.12 on port 2071 [24/07 > 23:05:20.875] > Read request for file <boot\pxeboot>. Mode octet [24/07 23:05:20.875] > Using local port 1680 [24/07 23:05:20.875] > <boot\pxeboot>: sent 429 blks, 219136 bytes in 1 s. 0 blk resent > [24/07 23:05:21.015] > Rcvd DHCP Discover Msg for IP 0.0.0.0, Mac 00:00:24:C8:B4:F8 [24/07 > 23:05:21.765] > DHCP: proposed address 192.168.168.12 [24/07 23:05:23.265] > Rcvd DHCP Rqst Msg for IP 0.0.0.0, Mac 00:00:24:C8:B4:F8 [24/07 > 23:05:23.265] > Previously allocated address 192.168.168.12 acked [24/07 23:05:24.765] > ------- > > Since I am a newbie at this I'm not sure what to try next. Has > anyone successfully used the Ultradesic procedure to install > FreeBSD on a 4801 w/ comBIOS ver. 1.31? If so, what is the trick to > getting it to work? Thanks in advance! > > -tm > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
