[Soekris] Soekris Booting Problem

[Hendrickson, Kenneth]

> comBIOS ver. 1.33  20070103  Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Soekris
Engineering.

I also have version 1.33.

> Pri Mas  FUJITSU MHT2080BH               LBA Xlt 1024-255-63  78 Gbyte
> Pri Sla  SanDisk SDCFH2-004G             LBA Xlt 995-128-63  4013
Mbyte

This is weird.  I seem to remember that message for my hard drive as
well.
So *something* in the comBIOS recognizes the drive.  I got the LBA
geometry message.

But at boot time, either through "boot 80", or letting it auto boot with
the parameters set for booting from a hard drive, it claims that there
are no bootable devices (other than PXEboot).

So maybe I do have an issue with my partitioning or my MBR.

Can you post your partitioning info?  What are the comBIOS's
requirements
for where the bootable partitions must be located?

>From memory, I used about the first 200 cylinders for my bootable
partition.
But I am not in front of the hardware, so right now I don't know for
sure.

Thanks,
Ken Hendrickson

PS  BootDelay only works if I set ShowPCI to Disabled.
When the comBIOS prints out the PCI devices, it also boots
immediately, and gives no time whatsoever for entering the
monitor through Ctrl-P.  I think this is a bug in the comBIOS.