On Mar 10, 2008, at 12:38 , Soren Kristensen wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Mike Tancsa wrote:
>> At 06:46 PM 3/7/2008, Brian Henderson wrote:
>>> I just picked up a net5501-60 and a Compact Flash card to build a
>>> router, and I have flashed the card and it works, but only on a warm
>>> boot. The card is not detected when the power is plugged in, but
>>> it is
>>> detected if you press the reset button or type reboot over the
>>> serial
>>> console. Rebooting from within m0n0wall works.
>>>
>>> Is there a setting to pause before detection of the flash card, or
>>> should I be looking for a new card?
>
> The info missing here is: did the CF card work with an earlier comBIOS
> version ?
>
> Yes: There was a few changes in the IDE code, to fix a div 0 bug
> caused
> by a mfg issues with soldered on flash on net4x26 series, and some of
> the timeouts was shortened. Those changes shouldn't cause any
> problems,
> but you never know.... If so, I need access to that specific CF module
> to investigate.
>
> No: Find another CF, preferable a Sandisk.
With 1.33, NetBSD boots fine but I see a delay of 130 seconds (+-2) on
every boot (warm or cold):
[Sun Mar 9 22:17:03 2008] Seconds to automatic boot. Press Ctrl-P
for enter
[Sun Mar 9 22:17:09 2008]NetBSD MBR boot
[Sun Mar 9 22:17:09 2008]
[Sun Mar 9 22:17:09 2008]NetBSD/i386 Primary Bootstrap
[Sun Mar 9 22:17:09 2008]
[Sun Mar 9 22:19:19 2008]
[Sun Mar 9 22:19:19 2008]>> NetBSD/i386 BIOS Boot, Revision 3.3
I don't know what the NetBSD boot loader does between the "Primary
Bootstrap" and the "Revision 3.3" message..
The same CF card (a FCF4GBU Twinmos Ultra-X CompactFlash) used to boot
without delay with the 1.31i firmware.
Should I try downgrading to version 1.31i?
BTW, maybe the release date and copyright for version 1.33 should be
20080103?
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