Darryl Miles wrote: > Henrik /KaarPoSoft wrote: >> In case anybody else runs into this issue: >> >> The above was observed with the disk being "internally" powered by >> the net5501, and the net5501 being powered by an external 12V 1.5A >> power supply. >> >> When powering the net5501 with a 12V 3A power supply (drive still >> "internally powered"), the drive is still not recognized after power-on. >> However, after a subsequent "reset" button press or BIOS reboot >> command, the drive is recognized and it is possible to boot from it. >> This behavior seems consistent, and the drive seems to work - I did >> two kernel compilations with no problem. > > Can you increase the comBIOS Ctrl-P "BootDelay" option to the maximum > 16 seconds ? Does that make any kind of difference ? > > http://wiki.soekris.info/What_do_all_those_BIOS_settings_do%3F > > Come to think about it, it does a storage bus scan before the > BootDelay kicks in (as it print the device information at the top), so > maybe an additional parameter should be added to comBIOS to delay the > storage scan after power on, with 0 being the default (meaning no > delay) and upto 15 seconds the maximum. Which will count down or need > an explicit Ctrl-C to abort early (rather than any-key since people > tend to press <CR> and <SP> to make something happen and that > shouldn't interrupt it).
Yes, 16 sec BootDelay does not help. Even with PXEBoot=Disabled, after 16 seconds it tries PXEBoot. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
