this is a welknown bug in the BIOS What was your previous version where it did work? 1.32i?
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:18:28PM -0400, Tom Mazzotta wrote: > After several months of not using my NET5501, I upgraded the BIOS to > 1.33c in preparation of installing FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. Using PXE, I > installed to a Hard Drive (ATA i/f) that previously ran FreeBSD 6.2 in > the 5501. > > The install worked fine, however, after doing a cold restart, I noticed > that the boot process would "hang" for about 20sec before recognizing > the HD, then boot FreeBSD. In this situation, the o/s would ultimately > fail to mount the root fs. If I then hit the RESET switch, I can usually > get the system to fully boot... sometimes I need to hit RESET twice to > get it to work. > > Once FreeBSD is running, I can issue a "reboot" command at an o/s > command prompt and the system bounces as expected. > > There are a few very similar reports in the list archive, although it > seems that they all were using CF cards. Do all 5501's flashed w/ 1.33c > behave this way, or is this problem limited to a bad batch of system > boards? Does Soekris believe the problems are caused by the storage > devices? > > -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
