Hi Dries,
This is a longstanding problem .. in my experience my board was rock
solid for a couple of years until I experienced a power failure and then
it failed to boot. It was a brick for over two years, but the last time
I tried it did boot and so now I'm keeping it as an emergency spare.
At the time I thought that the combios might be stuck in a loop waiting
for some hardware to initialize, and upon more reflection I suspect
that's probably the case.
If it the loop/jump was no-oped one might be able to get the board to
boot sans effected hardware .. I'd thought about disassembling the bios
and looking for that loop and replacing the JMP with a NOOP but didn't
have time at the time to mess with it and so bought a PC-Engines board
instead. I'm sure that if Soekris folks were still developing combios
this would be a trivial change to make and I'm sure they have no
shortage of dead boards to test it with. :)
I've often thought that If a sick board would at least boot without the
network ports it might still have limited use in some other capacity as
opposed to being a complete brick. Might also be possible to write a
special kernel driver to 'whack' it into shape once up and running.
--Andrew
On 2017-03-20 5:40 AM, Dries Verachtert wrote:
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Julien Cigar <jul...@perdition.city> wrote:
I think there is definitively an hardware/BIOS issue with the board, I'm
confident that the problem doesn't come from the power supply or an
overheating from the CPU.
Ed, Jay, Grizzard, Freek, Julien,
Thank you for all the information. I bought the board +/- 2,5 years
ago. The Soekris website mentions 3 years of limited warranty so I'll
try to do an RMA. But in the long run, I'll probably buy something
else because I prefer to have a router/firewall that will still work
after a reboot.
I've actually spent a lot of time fiddling with different serial
cables/ports and trying all combinations of serial speed/parity/stop
bits before I figured out that it only started again if I kept it
disconnected for some time. It would be nice if Soekris could document
this somewhere on their wiki...
Kind regards,
Dries
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