Dear list, we operate two net5501 as firewalls in two separate locations. Both have identical 8Gb flash drives (ELITE PRO CF CARD 8GB), and both run Debian Linux — perfectly!
Well, almost… one of the two does not seem to be able to boot, while the other one works just fine. If I add power to the device, the POST appears, and the BIOS delegates booting to drive 0x80, as it should. The serial console then spits out Grub loading. Welcome to Grub! device not found. rescue> If I now wait a few seconds, I can usually enter 'normal mode' with insmod normal normal and the Grub menu will appear. Alternatively, I can tell Grub to soft-reboot the machine, issue the reboot command in the serial monitor (ctrl-p), or push a needle into the reset hole — all of these yield a successful boot into Grub. It seems to me that the storage device takes a while to get ready, except that it makes the boot sector available in time for Grub to start loading — but Grub then cannot access the partition table and/or the filesystem in the first (and one and only) partition. Another weirdness I found was the output to the 'ls' command issued to Grub, because it reported 16 harddisks, e.g. resuce> ls (hd0), (hd0,msdos1), (hd1), (hd1,msdos1), …, (hd15), (hd15,msdos1) Has anyone seen this before? Can you think of something to do? My next step will be to replace the CF card, but I wanted to check in with y'all first. Thanks, -- martin | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/ "the liar at any rate recognises that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilised being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company." -- oscar wilde spamtraps: [email protected]
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