[Soekris] Odd Flash Boot

[Bob Camp]

Hi

I had one of those “wonderful” experiences with a new set of CF cards  
today.

I picked up a batch of 40 cards from my usual supplier and *surprise*  
they are not quite the same as the last batch. That's not terribly  
unusual, and I expected to be able to take care of it with a modest  
amount of toil.

The old CF's are BIOS recognized just fine on both a net4501 and a  
net4801. The new CF's are not recognized at all by the net4501. The  
new ones are properly identified by the BIOS in the 4801 and the  
FreeBSD boot loader comes up just fine on the 4801. I suspect the  
real difference is that the 4501’s are running bios 1.31 and the  
4801’s are running bios 1.29.

The new cards come up as 8054-8-32 on the 4801’s. I’m not very  
surprised that this makes a bios choke a bit. The new cards format  
fine under on an XP machine, and seem to work ok in a reader running  
FreeBSD on a desktop.

Has anybody else seen this specific issue between 45xx's and 48xx's  
or between BIOS 1.29 and 1.31? I'd like to move forward without a lot  
of mucking around if possible. Any thoughts about a quick fix?

Thanks!

Bob