Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 12:09:52 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: fml <tetrosalame@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 11.1 on Soekris NET4501. Storage issue Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK304TfoB6_Ssc6iBGZjRdcucMDPQwv%2BgK-X_518FhMNkw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20171212185233.GA1732@avalon.thwn> References: <20171212185233.GA1732@avalon.thwn>
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On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 12:52 PM, fml <tetrosalame@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to bring back to life an old Soekris NET4501 board. It > served last as networking bridge running FreeBSD 9.0. > > I created a small FreeBSD 11.1 image with nanobsd, using GENERIC + > CPU_ELAN/SOEKRIS stuff as kernel. The board boots from internal CF > but fails to mount the root partition it seems there are no > suitabile devices to mount the root partition from. > The problem seems CAM related but I'm unable to investigate it further. > > This NET4501 is equipped with just 64MB of RAM: I built a custom kernel > without the unnecessary devices and options, even without SMP and ACPI, > A guess is that something(s) you deem unnecessary are in fact necessary for successful boot. -- Adam
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