[Soekris] Net5501 doesn't boot from HDU

[Marco A. Calamari]

My seventh Soekris board, the 5501, is not a lucky one,
 so I'm here again ....

I configured Linux+Grub on the 5501 booting without hassle from a
 1GB CF. Today I added a tested Hitachi HDU with 
 the ATA mounting kit

The bios is a 1.32i and the HDU is cable select, as 
 describet in a thread of this list.

This is the result

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POST: 012345689bcefghips1234ajklnopqr,,,tvwxy

comBIOS ver. 1.32i 20071005  Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Soekris
Engineering.

net5501

0512 Mbyte Memory                        CPU Geode LX 500 Mhz

Pri Mas  Flash Card                      LBA Xlt 1007-32-63  1015 Mbyte
Pri Sla  Hitachi HTS541680J9AT00         LBA Xlt 1024-255-63  78 Gbyte

Slot   Vend Dev  ClassRev Cmd  Stat CL LT HT  Base1    Base2   Int
-------------------------------------------------------------------
0:01:2 1022 2082 10100000 0006 0220 08 00 00 A0000000 00000000 10
0:06:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E101 A0004000 11
0:07:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E201 A0004100 05
0:08:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E301 A0004200 09
0:09:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E401 A0004300 12
0:14:0 1057 5608 07800000 0107 0210 00 40 00 0000E501 A0005000 10
0:20:0 1022 2090 06010003 0009 02A0 08 40 80 00006001 00006101
0:20:2 1022 209A 01018001 0005 02A0 08 00 00 00000000 00000000
0:21:0 1022 2094 0C031002 0006 0230 08 00 80 A0006000 00000000 15
0:21:1 1022 2095 0C032002 0006 0230 08 00 00 A0007000 00000000 15

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

Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082)
Copyright (C) 1997,1998,1999  Intel Corporation
VIA Rhine III Management Adapter v2.43 (2005/12/15)
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable

PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM.

No Boot device available, enter monitor.


comBIOS Monitor.   Press ? for help.

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It seems that CF & HDU vanished and the 5501 is trying
 to boot from the network
Normally the grub prompts appears in place of PXE prompt

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GRUB Loading stage1.5.

GRUB loading, please wait...

    GNU GRUB  version 0.95  (639K lower / 523264K upper memory)

-------------------------------------------------------------------
 0: Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.22.3
 1: Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.15-1-486
 2: Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.15-1-486 (recovery mode)
-------------------------------------------------------------------

      Use the ^ and v keys to select which entry is highlighted.
      Press enter to boot the selected OS, 'e' to edit the
      commands before booting, or 'c' for a command-line.

    Entry 0 will be booted automatically in 1 seconds.
  Booting 'Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.22.3'

root  (hd0,0)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.3 root=/dev/hda1 ro console=ttyS0,9600n8
   [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x13ea10]

...

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Changing the cable-select jumper to master or slave doesn't help
Detaching the HDU cable allow the CF to boot normally.
Any idea to what is happening ? The disk is good, of course.

BTW what is the meaning of the three commas that are in
 the POST result string ???

many thanks to all.  Marco


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