[Soekris] Soekris Booting Problem

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On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Hendrickson, Kenneth
<khendr01 at harris.com>wrote:

> > 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.
>
>


my apoligies, mine is a 1.5GB/s stata drive, and not a 3GB/s...
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