For the records, maybe it will help someone sometimes: I bought a 32GB Kingston ultimate, which worked just fine in the net5501.
Then I tried the SanDisk on a net4801, with the same result as on the 5501, hangs when it tries to detect the geometry. Sebastian On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 08:05 CEST, "Sebastian Reitenbach" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > thanks for your answer, see my comments below. > > On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 00:23 CEST, Jed Clear <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Something basic perhaps, like did the boot sector and loader get properly > > installed? Although I would expect some complaint from the comBios in > > that case. > > > > Next thing, is you OS image configured for a serial console in all boot > > stages. I can only speak about FreeBSD, where ISTR three files need > > touching. > > i think it gets stuck even before trying to boot the OS. It's still in the > comBIOS, when it tries to detect the geometry and > size of the CF Card. > > Normally on the right side of the last line, where it prints the Disk, it > should usually write something about LBA XXX-YYY-ZZZ and the size of the > disk. > > The other old CF Card I currently use, its a 2GB SanDisk, but with lower > speed, only 15 MB/s IIRC. > This 32GB CF Card has 50MB/s. > > When I tried the 32GB Card on my desktop, I was able to reset the MBR with > fdisk, create OpenBSD partition, marked it active > as bootable and also updated machine boot code in MBR, without issues. But > still, it did not helped. > > If desired, I can send fdisk and disklabel output. > > cheers, > Sebastian > > > > -Jed > > > > > On Jun 10, 2014, at 5:43 AM, "Sebastian Reitenbach" > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I bought a SanDisk Ultra 32GB, in order to upgrade the disk in my > > > net5501,> however, with the new CF card plugged in, the box doesn't boot > > > it stops here: > > > > > > comBIOS ver. 1.33 20070103 Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Soekris Engineering. > > > > > > net5501 > > > > > > 0512 Mbyte Memory CPU Geode LX 500 Mhz > > > > > > Pri Mas SanDisk SDCFHSNJC-032G > > > > > > And then just hangs, I waited a couple of minutes before power cycled the > > > box. I tried with all three comBIOS version available from the downloads > > > site [1] > > > More googling, I found some related issues with solutions on that page > > > here [2] > > > However, also setting the flash=secondary > > > only changed the last line starting with "Pri Mas" to "Pri Sla" > > > but it still did hang. > > > > > > I tried this CF card on my desktop, and I was able to access it without > > > issue. > > > > > > Other than having the COM speed set to 9600, no other changes to the > > > settings > > > of the box. > > > > > > Any other ideas I could approach, besides trying different CF cards from > > > other vendors? > > > > > > cheers, > > > Sebastian > > > > > > [1] http://soekris.com/downloads.html > > > [2] http://soekris.com/Issue0006/ > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
