[Soekris] Can't cold boot new 5501

Tue Jul 22 21:02:53 UTC 2008

Steve Clark wrote:
> 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

>>
> 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.

Please read the archives, this has been discussed and explained before. 
  Basically the cards don't set the cable-select feature properly.  When 
rebooting, the card has the correct setting.  Perhaps they can work 
around this with a future combios hack.

For what it's worth, I've been using Transcend Industrial cards and have 
not had a problem (other than the cards are consistently recognized as 
secondary master instead of primary master.  (no other storage media 
installed).

Darrick
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