On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 07:11:36PM +1000, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
|I have an older net4801 board (around 2 years old now) to which I've
|added a 250GB drive - this shows up as a 134GB drive on the host which
|is annoying, but not a big problem ...
|
|What is annoying is that I seem to only be able to successfully boot
|the host now and again - I was able to boot the host a few times to
|configure it then not again since ... I seem to recall this being a
|problem with these boards, but I can't remember the fix.

I haven't managed to get any further with this - I did collect a dump
from the comBIOS boot:

|maja[~] 1v>: tip ttyU0
|connected
|
|POST: 012345689bcefghipsajklnopqr,,,tvwxy
:
:
|comBIOS ver. 1.33  20080103  Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Soekris Engineering.
|
|net4801
|
|0256 Mbyte Memory                        CPU Geode SC1100 267 Mhz
|
|Pri Mas  WDC WD2500BEVE-00WZT0           LBA Xlt 1024-255-63  134 Gbyte
|
|Slot   Vend Dev  ClassRev Cmd  Stat CL LT HT  Base1    Base2   Int
|-------------------------------------------------------------------
|0:00:0 1078 0001 06000000 0107 0280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000
|0:06:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E101 A0000000 10
|0:07:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E201 A0001000 10
|0:08:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E301 A0002000 10
|0:18:2 100B 0502 01018001 0005 0280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000
|0:19:0 0E11 A0F8 0C031008 0117 0280 08 38 00 A0003000 00000000 11
| 
| 1 Seconds to automatic boot.   Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor.
|
|No Boot device available, enter monitor.
|
|
|comBIOS Monitor.   Press ? for help.
|
|> show
|
|ConSpeed = 9600
|ConLock = Enabled
|ConMute = Disabled
|BIOSentry = Enabled
|PCIROMS = Enabled
|PXEBoot = Enabled
|FLASH = Primary
|BootDelay = 5
|FastBoot = Disabled
|BootPartition = Disabled
|BootDrive = 80 FF 81 F0 
|ShowPCI = Enabled
|Reset = Hard
|CpuSpeed = Default

To my mind this looks all good - the Soekris website lists 1.33 as being
the latest comBIOS version for the net4801, so no upgrade possibility
there ...

What should I try next? I'd prefer to boot from the HDD, but I might
have a CF card around that came with the unit originally that I could
use if I had to ...

Regards,
Malcolm

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Malcolm Herbert                                This brain intentionally
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