[Soekris] New BIOS

[David]

Hi Igor,

I tried swapping the compact flash from primary to secondary but it
still refused to boot. I even renewed the image on the compact flash
card but it booted first time when I downgraded the BIOS firmware back
to 1.28.

The compact flash (2Gb sandisk ultra II) is the only 'drive' in the box.
The bootloader (GRUB) gets as far as trying to load the 2nd stage but
returns a prompt instead. I assume it cant find the second stage.

setup is:
>show                                                                                                                                                         
ConSpeed=9600                                                                 
ConLock=Enabled                                                               
ConMute=Disabled
BIOSentry=Enabled                                                             
PCIROMS=Disabled                                                              
PXEBoot=Enabled
FLASH=Primary                                                                 
BootDelay=5                                                                   
FastBoot=Disabled                                                             
BootPartition=Disabled                                                        
BootDrive=8081F0FF                                                         
ShowPCI=Enabled                                                               
Reset = Hard

David

On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 17:52 +0100, Igor Sobrado wrote:
> In message <1171114736.8805.4.camel at ipaq.davidlove.homelinux.net>, David writes:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just upgraded my 4801 to the 1.29 BIOS image and I can no longer boot
> > the compact flash card. The copy of EMBcop tries seems to get to the 2nd
> > stage boot loader but goes no further. Is this connected with the
> > upgrade or just a coincidence?
> 
> Hi David.
> 
> It seems that the CF has changed from primary to secondary(?), is it
> possible with a firmware upgrade when no large changes has been
> implemented?  Ok, it seems that you have access to the comBIOS monitor
> yet, that is nice.
> 
> Perhaps some information about your net4801 will be useful.  Do you
> have a HDD installed too or just a CF card?  Can you, please, send
> the output of the "show" command?
> 
> It seems that you are able to boot from the CF (the first stage boot
> has no problems, am I wrong?).  Perhaps you can play with the BootDrive
> and FLASH parameters (FLASH sets the CF to either primary or secondary).
> I guess that you will probably need to change the FLASH parameter.
> Try setting it to either Primary or Secondary.  I suppose that on your
> operating system the device that corresponds to a partition is different
> for primary and secondary drives.
> 
> Awaiting more information on your problem,
> Igor.