[Soekris] Cold boot failures on Net5501?

[Joao Pedras]

Kevin,

I saw this once last week in the midst of trying some new units I 
purchased with 1.33 and then 1.33b.
The CF was a Silicon Drive 1Gb (I don't have the exact model with me 
now). I could only get the box to boot
by changing the CF setting in the BIOS to "secondary". There is 
something in the Soekris' FAQs which suggests
to try this out when you have problems with detecting the flash.

The problem you described happened once *after* this was done and it 
hasn't happened. I didn't really have time
to dig deeper into this. I still have two more units which I can try 
with next week.

It also was with OpenBSD 4.3. I have a bunch of 5501 with 4.2 but with 
BIOSes <1.33. Most likely 1.32.

I am not giving you much. :|

Regards,

Joao Pedras

K K wrote:
> Is anybody else seeing cold boot failures on Soekris Net5501-70
> with comBIOS v1.33b and OpenBSD 4.3?  I asked earlier on the
> soekris-tech list, received no replies.
>
>
> The console shows the following, and then hangs for about five seconds:
>
> 1 Seconds to automatic boot.   Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor.
> Using drive 0, partition 3.
> Loading...
> probing: pc0 com0 com1 pci mem[639K 511M a20=on]
> disk: hd0+
>
>
> The cursor sits at the '+' for several seconds, then a '*' is printed,
> then error messages:
>
> disk: hd0+*
>   
>>> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 3.01
>>>       
> open(hd0a:/etc/boot.conf): Unknown error: code 102
> boot>
> booting hd0a:/bsd: open hd0a:/bsd: Unknown error: code 102
>  failed(102). will try /bsd
> boot>
> booting hd0a:/bsd: open hd0a:/bsd: Invalid argument
>  failed(22). will try /bsd
> Turning timeout off.
> boot>
>
>
> If I now type 'machine diskinfo' at the prompt, I see the following:
>
> boot> machine diskinfo
> Disk    BIOS#   Type    Cyls    Heads   Secs    Flags   Checksum
> hd0     0x80    label   971     64      63      0x1     0x0
> boot>
>
> If I type 'reboot' at the prompt, then on the second try,
> the disk line reads "disk: hd0+" (no *, no delay),
> and in diskinfo the "Flags' entry is different, a checksum is shown,
> and booting is ultimately successful!
>
> Using drive 0, partition 3.
> Loading...
> probing: pc0 com0 com1 pci mem[639K 511M a20=on]
> disk: hd0+
>   
>>> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 3.01
>>>       
> boot> machine diskinfo
> Disk    BIOS#   Type    Cyls    Heads   Secs    Flags   Checksum
> hd0     0x80    label   971     64      63      0x2     0xc7f794bc
> boot>
>
>
> Looking through the source code for 'boot', I think the '*' indicates
> getdisklabel() failed?  I am not sure what the cause or fix would be.
> Without upgrading comBIOS (to "ver. 1.33b 20080501"), the compactflash
> card (Kingston 2GB) isn't detected at all.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
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