Okay, I'm playing around with these settings now to see what I can do. I REALLY wish the documentation were better because it's hard to find some of the needed info.
But now another issue comes up, of course! I'll start another thread for it, but the issue is that I'm using that SanDisk CF card I described before, the same as the one Soekris sells, and I get half way through the Debian and it gets to drive detection and does not detect any hard drive! I'm still experimenting with some of your settings to see what I can do that might effect it. I went through all this 3 years ago -- and it turned out when I was really stuck, I finally figured I should search for those emails from back then. It was the same issue, which came from lack of good documentation. But, unfortunately, I didn't have the same trouble with the CF cards, so I don't know yet what to do there. Hal On Feb 15, 2011, at 6:51 PM, Simon Thornton wrote: > Hi Hal, > > One peculiarity I've found is that if you have no hard disk on the primary > adapter then booting from some flash devices is problematical; they don't > like to be in secondary position yet be told by the BIOS that they are the > master. Another side effect is that the first boot fails yet a reboot > works). The controllers in the flash devices which have problems seem to > initialise late in the sequence if they are physically attached to a > secondary IDE port (as in the soekris). > > My solution was as follows: > > - in the bios change the flash preference to secondary (default) > - in the PXE config set the root device to be hdb or sdb instead of hda/sda > - in /etc/fstab in the main filesystem make sure all references are to hdb > or sdb > > The caveat seems to be that this depends on the flash device and varies even > amongst devices from the same manufacturer. > > PS: I tried to add this to the soekris wiki but wasn't able to get an > account. > > Rgds, > > Simon > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hal Vaughan > Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 22:14 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
