[Soekris] Suddenly, no boot device available :(

E S es0123 at hotmail.com
Mon Nov 1 03:25:53 UTC 2004


So I just returned from a wekk long work trip, during which I had shut 
everything down at home, including the UPS which powers my Soekris 4521.

Turning everything back on, with ethernet cables disconnected, I get the 
following:

comBIOS ver. 1.26a  20040819  Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Soekris Engineering.RC

hifn0 mem 0x
PCIROMS = Enabledf,0xa0000000-0xa0
PXEBoot = Disabled

net45xx  upda


0064 Mbyte Memory                        CPU 80486 133 MhzotPartition = 
Disabled
0:16:0 13A3 0012 0B400001 0116 0280 10 3C 00 A0000000 A0001000 10
0:17:0 104C AC51 06070000 0107 0210 10 3F 82 A0002000 020000A0 11
0:17:1 104C AC51 06070000 0107 0210 10 3F 82 A0003000 020000A0 11
0:18:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E101 A0004000 05
0:19:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E201 A0005000 09

1 Seconds to automatic boot.   Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor.

NSC DP83815/DP83816 Fast Ethernet UNDI, v1.03
Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 National Semiconductor Corporation
All rights reserved.

Pre-boot eXecution Environment  PXE-2.0 (build 082)
Copyright (C) 1997-2000  Intel Corporation

PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting MacPhyter PXE ROM.

No Boot device available, enter monitor.


comBIOS Monitor.   Press ? for help.

>

Noticeably, the CF device is not appearing. I have never configured my 
system for PXE boot. Lately I've been using monowall. I swapped in another 
CF card with an OpenBSD image and same result.

Any troubleshooting advice? I don't pay much attention to my 
Soekris--usually, it sits happily in its corner and Just Works. If this is a 
hardware problem, does Soren even take these back for repair? I don't see 
any mention of this sort of thing on the website.

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