I'm looking for some guidance on what is probably a combios
configuration issue. (Config is at the end of the email.)
I have a few Soekris boxes deployed remotely where I thought I had
done a reasonable job of testing things to ensure that in the event
of a power outage there was a reasonable chance of everything coming
back on their own.
On one site today, which has three net5501 boxes, there was a power
outage. All three are on UPSes (two on one, one on another), but
the OSes (OpenBSD) are not monitoring the state of the respective UPSes.
The problem is that once power was restored, all three were sitting at
the combios prompt. Due to the network topology, I was unable to
remotely get to the console with all three boxes down and had to have
someone on-site manually power cycle them, at which point things came
up.
I know that I tested pulling the plug on these and seeing them come up
again, which leaves me rather disconcerted that they ended up at the
combios prompt.
What settings should be selected to maximize the chance of booting
from the SATA SSD drive under such circumstances? I suspect that
the problem is the BootDrive setting which for all three machines is
BootDrive = 80 81 F0 FF
Other threads on related topics hint that perhaps I should have
BootDrive = 80 80 80 80
These machines have a mixture of
PXEBoot = Enabled
and
PXEBoot = Disabled
so I suspect that isn't the problem even though I'll disable it on
all of them anyway.
Comments?
If anyone has insight into what failure mode I hit that resulted
in all three machines sitting at the combios prompt, it would
be appreciated.
comBIOS ver. 1.33 20070103 Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Soekris Engineering.
net5501
0512 Mbyte Memory CPU Geode LX 500 Mhz
Pri Sla INTEL SSDSA2M040G2GC LBA Xlt 1024-255-63 39082 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
0:14:0 8086 1229 02000010 0117 0290 08 40 00 A0005000 0000E501 10
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 A0040000 00000000 15
0:21:1 1022 2095 0C032002 0006 0230 08 00 00 A0041000 00000000 15
> show
ConSpeed = 19200
ConLock = Enabled
ConMute = Disabled
BIOSentry = Enabled
PCIROMS = Enabled
PXEBoot = Disabled
FLASH = Primary
BootDelay = 5
FastBoot = Disabled
BootPartition = Disabled
BootDrive = 80 81 F0 FF
ShowPCI = Enabled
Reset = Hard
CpuSpeed = Default
Devin
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