Hello,

We got a net5501 last week. Nice box, but we are running into boot
troubles (Gentoo Linux installed on a Kingston 8Gb CF card).

When powered on (cold boot), grub boots but does not "find" its
configuration file. We get the grub shell, where a 'configfile
/boot/grub/grub.conf' is needed to get the box to boot the OS.

After this, at any other time (reboot from the BIOS, from Grub, from the
running OS), if the power has not gone out, grub will find its config
file and boots everything as it should.

But it's really troublesome if the box cannot perform a standalone boot
after poweroff (15 minutes blackouts are not that uncommon around here).

Any hints about how to solve this ?

The boot screen says :

comBIOS ver. 1.33  20070103  Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Soekris Engineering.

net5501

0256 Mbyte Memory                        CPU Geode LX 434 Mhz

Pri Mas  CF CARD 8GB                     LBA Xlt 971-255-63  7807 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

And BIOS params are :

ConSpeed = 19200
ConLock = Enabled
ConMute = Disabled
BIOSentry = Enabled
PCIROMS = Enabled
PXEBoot = Enabled
FLASH = Primary
BootDelay = 5
FastBoot = Disabled
BootPartition = Disabled
BootDrive = 80 81 F0 FF
ShowPCI = Enabled
Reset = Hard
CpuSpeed = Default

Thanks for the help,
-- Mbdr
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