[Soekris] net4501 reboot issue

Wed Dec 14 00:31:36 UTC 2005

Soft reboot never worked with this card for me, but I tried it anyway hoping
it may have come with corrupt boot sectors.  No dice, but thanks for the
advice.

-oip

On 12/13/05, Richard Reed <richard at richardreed.com> wrote:
>
>  I had this exact issue before. If your same CF worked using soft reboot
> in the past, but not now, you may have corrupt boot sectors. I was able to
> fix this by issuing this command in Linux or FreeBSD:  dd if=/dev/zero
> of=/dev/da2 bs=1k count=100
>
>
>
> Or for windows, create about 100kb of zeroed file as zero.bin and flash it
> using your favorite CF flasher software.
>
>
>
> Hope this helps..
>
>
>
> Richard
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* soekris-tech-bounces at lists.soekris.com [mailto:
> soekris-tech-bounces at lists.soekris.com] *On Behalf Of *Doctor Gonzo
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 13, 2005 4:43 PM
> *To:* sales at soekris.com; soekris-tech at lists.soekris.com
> *Subject:* [Soekris] net4501 reboot issue
>
>
>
> I'm not able to do a soft reboot with the CF card I have, and after
> searching around it looks like this is a known (and unresolved) issue with
> comBIOS.  Resetting with the button on the box, or killing the power and
> booting up works fine, but rebooting either from the os ( I'm using OpenBSD
> 3.8 built with flashdist, but I originally tried m0n0wall 1.2 and had the
> same problem ) or from comBIOS fails.  The board came with comBIOS v. 1.28,
> although I downgraded it and tested v. 1.25, 1.26a, 1.27 and 1.28 again,
> all with the same behavior.  Some copy/paste below.
>
> Is there something I can do to work around this?  If this is a comBIOS
> bug, is there any information I can provide to help get this fixed and have
> a new version released?
>
> Thanks,
> -oip
>
> References:
> http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2005-October/024378.html
> http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2005-November/024509.html
> http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2004-October/021889.html
> http://m0n0.ch/wall/list/showmsg.php?id=113/39
>
>
> Copy/Past of my issue with the net4501:
> -----FROM A HARD RESET-----
>
> comBIOS ver. 1.28  20050527  Copyright (C) 2000-2005 Soekris Engineering.
>
> net45xx
>
> 0064 Mbyte Memory                        CPU 80486 133 Mhz
>
> Pri Mas  TOSHIBA THNCF128MMG             LBA 978-8-32  125 Mbyte
>
>  1 Seconds to automatic boot.
> Using drive 0, partition 3.
> Loading.....
> probing: pc0 com0 com1 pci mem[639K 63M a20=on]
> disk: hd0+
> >> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 2.10
> switching console to com0
> >> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 2.10
> com0: changing speed to 19200 baud in 5 seconds, change your terminal to
> match!
>
> com0: 19200 baud
> boot>
> booting hd0a:/bsd: 1546692+312400 [52+88864+79591]=0x1ef1c4
> entry point at 0x100120
>
> [ using 168880 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ]
> Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
>         The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
> Copyright (c) 1995-2005 OpenBSD. All rights reserved.
> http://www.OpenBSD.org
>
> OpenBSD 3.8 (NET4501) #0: Thu Dec  8 04:53:26 PST 2005
>     root at openbsd38.domain.com
> :/usr/openbsd/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/NET4501
> cpu0: AMD Am486DX4 W/B or Am5x86 W/B 150 ("AuthenticAMD" 486-class)
> cpu0: FPU
> real mem  = 66691072 (65128K)
> avail mem = 57470976 (56124K)
> using 839 buffers containing 3436544 bytes (3356K) of memory
> mainbus0 (root)
> bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(00) BIOS, date 20/50/27, BIOS32 rev. 0 @
> 0xf7840
> pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.0 @ 0xf0000/0x10000
> pcibios0: pcibios_get_intr_routing - function not supported
> pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing information unavailable.
> pcibios0: PCI bus #0 is the last bus
> cpu0 at mainbus0
> pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios)
> elansc0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "AMD ElanSC520 PCI" rev 0x00: product 0
> stepping 1.1, CPU clock 133MHz, reset 0
> gpio0 at elansc0: 32 pins
> sis0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "NS DP83815 10/100" rev 0x00: DP83816A, irq
> 10, address 00:00:24:c5:ff:ff
> nsphyter0 at sis0 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 PHY, rev. 1
> sis1 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 "NS DP83815 10/100" rev 0x00: DP83816A, irq
> 11, address 00:00:24:c5:ff:ff
> nsphyter1 at sis1 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 PHY, rev. 1
> sis2 at pci0 dev 20 function 0 "NS DP83815 10/100" rev 0x00: DP83816A, irq
> 5, address 00:00:24:c5:ff:ff
> nsphyter2 at sis2 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 PHY, rev. 1
> isa0 at mainbus0
> isadma0 at isa0
> wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0/8 irq 14
> wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0: <TOSHIBA THNCF128MMG>
> wd0: 1-sector PIO, LBA, 122MB, 250368 sectors
> wd0(wdc0:0:0): using BIOS timings
> npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
> pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
> pccom0: console
> pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
> biomask f3c7 netmask ffe7 ttymask ffe7
> dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80
> root on wd0a
> rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302
> /dev/rwd0a: file system is clean; not checking
> mfs: mounting /tmp...
> mfs: populating /tmp...
> databases: dev
> securelevel: kern.securelevel: 0 -> 1
> watchdog: kern.watchdog.period: 0 -> 32
> watchdog: kern.watchdog.auto: 1 -> 1
> hostname: setting hostname to tombride...
> inet: configuring IP on system interfaces...
> route: adding default route...
> add net default: gateway 192.168.0.1
> pf/nat: configuring and enabling...
> pf enabled
> syslogd: starting log daemon...
> ssh: starting daemon...
>
> OpenBSD/i386 (tombride) (tty00)
>
> login: root
> Password:
> Dec 13 12:33:10 hostname login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON tty00
> Dec 13 12:33:10 hostname login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON tty00
> # reboot
> Dec 13 12:33:42 hostname reboot: rebooted by root
> Dec 13 12:33:42 hostname reboot: rebooted by root
> Dec 13 12:33:42 hostname reboot: rebooted by root
> Dec 13 12:33:42 hostname syslogd: exiting on signal 15
> Dec 13 12:33:42 hostname syslogd: exiting on signal 15
> Dec 13 12:33:42 hostname syslogd: exiting on signal 15
>
> comBIOS ver. 1.28  20050527  Copyright (C) 2000-2005 Soekris Engineering.
>
> net45xx
>
> 0064 Mbyte Memory                        CPU 80486 133 Mhz
>
> Pri Mas  TOSHIBA THNCF128MMG             LBA 978-8-32  125 Mbyte
>
>  1 Seconds to automatic boot.
>
> No Boot device available, enter monitor.
>
>
> comBIOS Monitor.   Press ? for help.
>
> > show
>
> ConSpeed = 19200
> ConLock = Enabled
> ConMute = Disabled
> BIOSentry = Disabled
> PCIROMS = Disabled
> PXEBoot = Disabled
> FLASH = Primary
> BootDelay = 5
> FastBoot = Disabled
> BootPartition = Disabled
> BootDrive = 80 FF FF FF
> ShowPCI = Disabled
> Reset = Hard
>
> > boot 80
> Using drive 0, partition 3.
> Loading.....
> probing: pc0 com0 com1 pci mem[639K 63M a20=on]
> disk: hd0+*
> >> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 2.10
> open(hd0a:/etc/boot.conf): Unknown error: code 96
> boot>
> booting hd0a:/bsd: open hd0a:/bsd: Unknown error: code 96
>  failed(96). will try /obsd
> boot>
> booting hd0a:/obsd: open hd0a:/obsd: Unknown error: code 96
>  failed(96). will try /bsd.old
> boot>
> booting hd0a:/bsd.old: open hd0a:/bsd.old: Unknown error: code 96
>  failed(96). will try /bsd
> boot>
> booting hd0a:/bsd: open hd0a:/bsd: Unknown error: code 96
>  failed(96). will try /obsd
> boot>
> booting hd0a:/obsd: open hd0a:/obsd: Unknown error: code 96
>  failed(96). will try /bsd.old
> boot>
> booting hd0a:/bsd.old: open hd0a:/bsd.old: Unknown error: code 96
>  failed(96). will try /bsd
> Turning timeout off.
> boot>
>
>
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