Results of jumpering:- With CF card plugged in and HD with no jumper. -Primary master is CF. HD not detected.
With CF card plugged in and HD with Cable Select jumpered. -Primary master is CF. HD not detected. With CF card plugged in and HD with Slave jumpered. -Primary master is CF. Primary Slave is HD. -By default CF is booted. -BIOS command "boot 81" causes HD to boot, though FreeBSD can't mount slices because /etc/fstab entries no longer match the device names. So, I can now create my nanobsd image and put it on the CF card, though I'll have to do it on another PC. I should be able to boot it and access the HD once it has booted, which is where I want to be. thanks, Philip On 27/11/2011 22:49, Philip wrote: > Wim I think you found the answer, or at least part of it. > > When I have only the HD the bios says that the HD is primary master. > When I have the HD and the CF the bios says that the CF is primary master and > no mention of the HD. > > The HD needs a jumper put on it to make it cable select, with no jumper it is > primary master. > I don't have of those tiny laptop jumpers so I'll have to look on ebay or > something. > > I guess that if I can boot from the CF with the HD as slave that's good > enough. I can create the > image without the CF present, scp the image onto my desktop and then dd from > there using a usb > adaptor, then put it in and boot it. > > thanks, Philip > > Wim Vandeputte Mailing list only wrote: >> hey, >> >> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:54:40PM +0000, Philip wrote: >>> My net5501 currently runs from an IDE harddisk, however I would like to >>> migrate to a 4G CF card and use nanobsd. >>> >>> The problem is that if I put the CF card in the slot the net5501 won't >>> boot from the harddisk, which I need it to in order to copy the image >>> onto the CF card. >>> >>> I tried playing with "boot 81" from the bios, and "set flash=secondary" >>> but I still can't get to boot from harddisk. >> >> Set your IDE harddisk to 'cable select', it's the same jumper that does >> master/slave but it varies from brand on how to do it. >> >> Then you can use the BIOS setting to make the CF either master or secondary >> >> PS: post a screen capture of your BIOS where it detects the harddisk so we >> can see which one is recognised as master >> >> Wim. > _______________________________________________ > 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
