Using net-5501 board along with DD-WRT on a Kingston 1GB CF card http://www.kingston.com/flash/cf_standard.asp (yes, 1GB is not listed though it is the same series)
This has been working great several months now, just until I had DD-WRT crash on me. After several reinstalls of DD-WRT (install happens an a secondary machine physdiskwriting the binary file to the CFcard) in which the installation would not boot (grub error 25), I stumbled upon an article about the comBIOS Flash parameter. Setting this to Flash=Secondary solved my problem, now DD-WRT would boot. At that point I was trying an older DD-WRT build, so in good faith that I had solved the boot problem I reinstalled DD-WRT with latest build. Then it would not boot again (grub error 25 again). I doublechecked if BIOS had reset to defaults, the parameter was still Flash=Secondary, so all should be good. Then I reverted the flash parameter back to Flash=Primary and then it would boot. Now I am concerned, why the settings would change, and if I could/should expect that the firewall may need this manual change if I warmboot/coldboot the board? After your experience are Kingston CF cards just as bad as the less known ones? Could the situation of installing DD-WRT in one machine (Standard PC with CF card reader and Windows XP) change the Master/Slave role. Reading the wiki, it seems only to be a matter of a CF card either needs Primary or Secondary, not the CF card changing role. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
