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 -- Malcolm Herbert This brain intentionally [email protected] left blank _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
