[Soekris] Can't cold boot new 5501

[Steve Clark]

Chris Babcock wrote:
> Scott Reber wrote:
> 
>>I am not able to get m0n0wall 1.3b13 to cold boot on a Soekris 5501 with
>>combios 1.33c.  I just received two of these units today and both
>>exhibit the same symptoms.  M0n0wall begins to boot and pauses for quite
>>a while detecting ata0 and apparently detects no disk.  It does the same
>>for ata1.  This causes a fatal error "The device that contains the
>>configuration file (config.xml) could not be found. M0n0wall cannot
>>continue booting."  Setting flash=primary|secondary does not make any
>>difference.
>>
>>If I press a key to reboot the configuration file is found.
>>
>>Does anyone have a fix?
>>
> 
> This sounds like you may be using a CF card that doesn't work properly. 
>   What kind of CF card are you using? (If it's not a SanDisk brand card, 
> you may want to try using one.)
> 
> -Chris
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Hi Chris,

If it is the CF why does it work on the reboot? Sounds like the combios is not setting
something up correctly on cold boot - but the OS sort of fixes it on the first boot and on
the reboot everything is OK.

Steve