Hello, Again replying to my own E-Mail - I attached the SYBA IDE2UCF1 to the Net 5501 ide interface it also booted without the slightest problem using the Transcend CF.
Steve Steve Clark wrote: > Hello, > > I have more information on the Soekris 5501 boot problem > using a Transcend TS4GCF266 CF. > > I purchased a cheap SYBA IDE2UCF1 ide to compact flash adapter. > I installed my Transcend TS4GCF266 CF into and put in a system with > a pc with about a 5 year old mother board. The CF was recognize without > any problem and immediately boot FreeBSD without a hitch. > > I also booted it up on a 2 year old Biostar TForce 6100-939 mainboard without > a hitch. > > To me this appears to point to a problem with the Soekris Combios or the Net > 5501 > hardwares implementation of its CF to IDE interface. > > I know Soekris says use Sandisk but a 4 GB sandisk CF cost $10 more and is > half as > fast as the Transcend - 20mbs vs 40mbs. > > Steve > > Steve Clark wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>Well I tried 1.33c on my 5501 with my Transcend TS4GCF266 CF and it made >>things >>worst. I was unable to get FreeBSD to boot - it always hangs at mountroot >>saying it >>can't find the root device. >> >>When the 5501 is cold booted I get about a 10-15 sec pause before it >>recognizes the CF device >>with either 1.33c or 1.33b. With both 133.b and 133.c it will start loading >>the FreeBSD kernel >>then there will be a long pause FreeBSD is trying to detect the hard drive >> >>atapci0: <AMD CS5536 UDMA100 controller> port >>0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xe000-0xe00f at device 20.2 on pci0 >>ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0 >>ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0 >> >>then it will continue on detecting other devices and when it gets to the >>point to mount the root filesystem >>it says it can't find it. >> >>If at this point with 1.33b I press the reset button on the 5501 the >>Transcend CF is immediately recognized and >>FreeBSD boots up to completion with no problems. >> >>With 1.33c if I press the reset button - there again is a long pause during >>POST before the CF is recognized and >>again FreeBSD hangs at can't mountroot. >> >>I tried several time with 1.33c before downgrading the bios back to 1.33b >>which then immediately boot up fine. >> >>There are voluminous specs for the Transcend CF online at the Transcend web >>site. >> >>Steve >> >>Wim Vandeputte mailinglist only wrote: >> >> >>>That is a BIOS problem. >>> >>>You see this with 1.33c? Please send you info to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>>On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 03:47:33PM -0400, Steve Clark wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>Wim Vandeputte mailinglist only wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>hey, >>>>> >>>>>This is actually the same error you see with FreeBSD and OpenBSD when >>>>>the BIOS has problems recognising the CF. You can spot it when there is >>>>>a 20 second delay when detecting the CF and when the bootloader tries >>>>>any disk activity >>>>> >>>>>comBIOS ver. 1.33c 20080626 Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Soekris Engineering. >>>>> >>>>>net5501 >>>>> >>>>>0256 Mbyte Memory CPU Geode LX 434 Mhz >>>>> >>>>>Pri Mas SILICONSYSTEMS INC 1GB LBA Xlt 1015-32-63 1023 Mbyte >>>>> >>>>>Slot Vend Dev ClassRev Cmd Stat CL LT HT Base1 Base2 Int >>>>>------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>0:01:2 1022 2082 10100000 0006 0220 08 00 00 A0000000 00000000 10 >>>>>0:06:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E101 A0004000 11 >>>>>0:07:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E201 A0004100 05 >>>>>0:08:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E301 A0004200 09 >>>>>0:09:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E401 A0004300 12 >>>>>0:20:0 1022 2090 06010003 0009 02A0 08 40 80 00006001 00006101 >>>>>0:20:2 1022 209A 01018001 0005 02A0 08 00 00 00000000 00000000 >>>>>0:21:0 1022 2094 0C031002 0006 0230 08 00 80 A0005000 00000000 15 >>>>>0:21:1 1022 2095 0C032002 0006 0230 08 00 00 A0006000 00000000 15 >>>>> >>>>>1 Seconds to automatic boot. Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor. >>>>>Using drive 0, partition 3. >>>>>Loading... >>>>>probing: pc0 com0 com1 pci mem[639K 255M a20=on] >>>>>disk: hd0+* >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>>OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 3.01 >>>>> >>>>>open(hd0a:/etc/boot.conf): Unknown error: code 102 >>>>>boot> reboot >>>>>Rebooting... >>>>>exit >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>POST: 012345689bcefghips1234ajklnopqr,,,tvwxy >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>comBIOS ver. 1.33c 20080626 Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Soekris Engineering. >>>>> >>>>>net5501 >>>>> >>>>>0256 Mbyte Memory CPU Geode LX 434 Mhz >>>>> >>>>>Pri Mas SILICONSYSTEMS INC 1GB LBA Xlt 1015-32-63 1023 Mbyte >>>>> >>>>>Slot Vend Dev ClassRev Cmd Stat CL LT HT Base1 Base2 Int >>>>>------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>0:01:2 1022 2082 10100000 0006 0220 08 00 00 A0000000 00000000 10 >>>>>0:06:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E101 A0004000 11 >>>>>0:07:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E201 A0004100 05 >>>>>0:08:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E301 A0004200 09 >>>>>0:09:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E401 A0004300 12 >>>>>0:20:0 1022 2090 06010003 0009 02A0 08 40 80 00006001 00006101 >>>>>0:20:2 1022 209A 01018001 0005 02A0 08 00 00 00000000 00000000 >>>>>0:21:0 1022 2094 0C031002 0006 0230 08 00 80 A0005000 00000000 15 >>>>>0:21:1 1022 2095 0C032002 0006 0230 08 00 00 A0006000 00000000 15 >>>>> >>>>>1 Seconds to automatic boot. Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor. >>>>>Using drive 0, partition 3. >>>>>Loading... >>>>>probing: pc0 com0 com1 pci mem[639K 255M a20=on] >>>>>disk: hd0+ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>>OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 3.01 >>>>> >>>>>- >>>>>com0: 19200 baud >>>>>switching console to com0 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>>OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 3.01 >>>>> >>>>>boot> >>>>>booting hd0a:/bsd: 5913424+1004644 [52+306864+287943]=0x72a4d4 >>>>>entry point at 0x200120?? >>>>>[ using 595232 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ] >>>>>Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 >>>>> The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. >>>>>Copyright (c) 1995-2008 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. >>>>>http://www.OpenBSD.org >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:44:39AM -0700, Chris Babcock wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>Eternity wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>Hi! >>>>>>> >>>>>>>I have a problem with a whole bunch of NET5501:s. I have read some posts >>>>>>>with similar problems, but not exactly this, I think, so I post my >>>>>>>problem: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>On a Cold boot my CF Card is detected: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Pri Mas CF CARD 1GB LBA Xlt 983-32-63 990 Mbyte >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Then at boot: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>GRUB Loading stage1.5. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>GRUB loading, please wait... >>>>>>>Error 25 >>>>>>> >>>>>>>--- >>>>>>> >>>>>>>If I press ctrl-p, and at once in combios makes a "reboot" everything >>>>>>>works OK, and GRUB can load correctly. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>I have used lots of net5501 boxes with this distribution (same image >>>>>>>file >>>>>>>I write to the CF card) without any trouble at all. I have tried >>>>>>>upgrading >>>>>>>BIOS to 1.33c version, but no change. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Any ideas? Could it be the flash card? Or some defect on these batch of >>>>>>>boards? >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>It could be the flash or a defective board. If you have a known working >>>>>>unit, try swapping the flash into it and see if you get the same >>>>>>error. If another known working unit does the same thing, you probably >>>>>>have one of the 5501 boards with issues (RMA to resolve). If the error >>>>>>persists, it's probably bad CF. One other possibility... Did you image >>>>>>the CF or do the install from a different system? If you did, there are >>>>>>often disk geometry issues in the install, which can and often do cause >>>>>>issues, esp with boot loaders. The only safe way to make sure the >>>>>>geometry is correct on a load is to load on the exact same type of >>>>>>system (so in this case, another 5501). >>>>>> >>>>>>Grub manual error code link: >>>>>>http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Stage1_002e5-errors >>>>>> >>>>>>According to the grub manual Error 25 in stage 1.5 is... >>>>>> >>>>>>25 : Disk read error >>>>>> This error is returned if there is a disk read error when trying to >>>>>>probe or read data from a particular disk. >>>>> >>>>>http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech >>>> >>>> >>>>Yes that is exactly what I see with my Transcend CF and FreeBSD 6.3 >>>> >>>>Steve >>>> >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>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
