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

[Jed Clear]

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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
[snip]

Thanks Mike.  Always nice to have a hunch confirmed.

I flashed to 1.32i (not without it's own fun), and 6.3R came up
successfully.  There were lots of messages about missing bits from the
boot scripts, which I'm not sure were there with 6.2, but that's an issue
for the FreeBSD lists.

-Jed