interrupt the bios, boot f0 that should initiate a pxe boot on eth0 im guessing you had the CF card conncted to another PC to format it? you have to make sure that both the formatting PC and the soekris sees that same values for C/H/S ei:
Pri Mas SanDisk SDCFH-008G LBA Xlt *974-255-63* 7824 Mbyte and that you tell the system you're installing to direct console output to serial(i'm guessing ur tried to preload bsd to the CF after formatting on the PC?) if u choose to install via PXE boot, then just partition the disk from the pxe installer. On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Hendrickson, Kenneth <[email protected]>wrote: > I don't know the right answer, but it is probably your boot parameters in > the comBIOS. > > The documentation is VERY POOR. > > Ken Hendrickson > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Hal Vaughan > Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 4:14 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Soekris] PXE Boot Won't Work With Compact Flash Plugged In > > I'm working on a new Net5501 with 1.33 BIOS. (I upgraded to 1.33c at one > point, but then it always tried to boot BSD, for some reason, and always > crashed, so I had to go back to 1.33.) > > I'm using a SanDisk Ultra Compact Flash, just like this one (which Soekris > sells): > > https://www.soekris.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=156 > > When I got it, it was formatted in FAT and I plugged it in to boot and it > worked. Since I have been having troubles with PXE and the boot won't get > but so far, I re-formatted it in ext3 to see if that helped and put it back > in. This is as far as the system got: > > > comBIOS ver. 1.33 20070103 Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Soekris Engineering. > > net5501 > > 0512 Mbyte Memory CPU Geode LX 500 Mhz > > Pri Mas SanDisk SDCFH-008G LBA Xlt 974-255-63 7824 Mbyte > > Slot Vend Dev ClassRev Cmd Stat CL LT HT Base1 Base2 Int > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > 0:01:2 1022 2082 10100000 0006 0220 08 00 00 A0000000 00000000 10 > 0:06:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E101 A0004000 11 > 0:07:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E201 A0004100 05 > 0:08:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E301 A0004200 09 > 0:09:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E401 A0004300 12 > 0:20:0 1022 2090 06010003 0009 02A0 08 40 80 00006001 00006101 > 0:20:2 1022 209A 01018001 0005 02A0 08 00 00 00000000 00000000 > 0:21:0 1022 2094 0C031002 0006 0230 08 00 80 A0005000 00000000 15 > 0:21:1 1022 2095 0C032002 0006 0230 08 00 00 A0006000 00000000 15 > > 1 Seconds to automatic boot. Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor. > > ---------- > I have the pxelinux boot working, at least until the initrd starts > unpacking, but once I tried booting with a CF card formatted in ext3, it > freezes here. > > What's the problem here? Does it automatically boot the CF card before > going to the net boot? > > Any help would be appreciated. I've been busting my tail to get this > system booting for close to two days now and it simply won't boot. > > > > Hal > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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