> I'd like to install Fedora 8 on my net4801, but the hard disks > are not detected by the kernel. I gather this issue has been > fixed for the net5501 by the 1.32 BIOS---would there be a version > for the net4801 as well? Can I just use the net5501 BIOS?
comBIOS revision 1.32 includes some fixes to detect SATA drives, not ATA ones. I think that it does not include any change that will benefit the net4801. I am sure, Soren will release a new comBIOS for the net4801 if there is any change that will benefit this board. Do you have a CF card installed on the net4801? You will probably need to set up the HDD to cable-select to be able to swap the CF/HDD settings from the comBIOS. Perhaps both devices are set to master right now. > Apparently a device driver for the CS5536 ATA subsystem is > now in the Linux mainstream; it can apparently deal with > the CS5536 using either MSR or PCI, so an old BIOS would then > be okay. But this may or may not make it into Fedora 8 before > it is released. Don't know about Fedora, other net4801 owners are running Linux on these embedded computers; perhaps another flavour. However, BSDs (e.g., OpenBSD) are excellent choices for Soekris computers. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
