[Soekris] net4501 reboot issue

Wed Dec 14 03:40:46 UTC 2005

What brand CF you have? I have heard certain brand of CF gives problem. I am
using SanDisk and Toshiba brand CF without problems.  Try using different
brand and see if that helps. 

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From: Doctor Gonzo [mailto:oneinchpunch at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 7:32 PM
To: Richard Reed; sales at soekris.com; soekris-tech at lists.soekris.com
Subject: Re: [Soekris] net4501 reboot issue

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

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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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