[Soekris] Nanobsd/FreeBSD 6.3-R won't boot

[Mike Tancsa]

At 04:27 PM 1/19/2008, Jed Clear wrote:
>First off, has anyone else gotten 6.3R to boot on a net5501?
>
>I'm planning on trying a GENERIC kernel next, but am wondering if 6.3R is
>doing something different with DMA by default, perhaps needing the 1.32h
>and i comBIOS fixes.

Hi,
You definitely want to be running 1.32i. There are a number of bug 
fixes you will need in the BIOS, and yes, there are differences in 
the ata driver that changed since 6.2.  The BIOS will look like


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


         ---Mike


>  I think I have 1.32(release), at least it doesn't
>display any suffix letter when it boots:  "comBIOS ver. 1.32 20070606
>Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Soekris Engineering."
>
>Any other suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>
>-Jed
>
>Console output follows:
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Timecounter "TSC" frequency 499904773 Hz quality 800
>Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
>IPv6 packet filtering initialized, logging limited to 1 packets/entry
>ipfw2 (+ipv6) initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding disabled,
>default to deny, logging limited to 5 packets/entry by default
>ad0: 977MB <SanDisk SDCFB-1024 HDX 4.03> at ata0-master WDMA2
>ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=0
>ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (0 retries left) LBA=0
>ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out LBA=0
>ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=0
>ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (0 retries left) LBA=0
>ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out stray irq7
>LBA=0
>ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=1
>ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (0 retries left) LBA=1
>ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out LBA=1
>ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 restray irq7
>try left) LBA=0
>ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (0 retries left) LBA=0
>ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out LBA=0
>Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
>
>Manual root filesystem specification:
>   <fstype>:<device>  Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
>                        eg. ufs:da0s1a
>   ?                  List valid disk boot devices
>   <empty line>       Abort manual input
>
>mountroot>
>
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