Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:38:48 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Sven Hazejager <sven@hazejager.nl>, freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem booting nanoBSD 7.2-p4 on Alix Message-ID: <200911062038.nA6KcmPZ088744@lava.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <8ffccde70911061200t6788ca9bo67a094122f18b6ab@mail.gmail.co m> References: <8ffccde70911061200t6788ca9bo67a094122f18b6ab@mail.gmail.com>
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At 03:00 PM 11/6/2009, Sven Hazejager wrote:
>All,
>
>I'm having some challenging issues booting nanoBSD 7.2-p4 on CF on an
>Alix serial-only system. Symptom: I'm seeing boot0sio fine, I can get
>into the loader etc. boot after typing "boot" or letting it timeout, I
>see "Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]..." and I get one "/" character on
>the next line but then everything stops.
Hi,
For my Alix boxes I use
NANO_BOOT0CFG="-o nopacket -s 1 -m 3 -t 36"
For my kernel, I generally get rid of
options ATA_STATIC_ID # Static device numbering
to avoid issues of ad0 vs ad1 as it seems to vary from CF to CF
manufacturer. Otherwise I have to fiddle with
NANO_DRIVE=ad0
---Mike
>The loader prompt allows me to do an "ls" and I can see the files on
>the first slice just fine.
>
>This happens both with GENERIC and with my own kernel. GENERIC and my
>own kernel boot fine over PXE.
>
>Things I already tried:
>
>- Using both CHS and LBA geometry of the CF card as reported by Alix
>tinybios in nanoBSD
>- Set tinybios both to CHS and LBA mode
>- Changed nanoBSD boot0config to include "-o nopacket"
>
>Possibly I have NOT tested all combinations of above options to be
>honest, but I'm not sure if the problem lies with geometry or not...?
>At the very least I'm staring myself blind :-)
>
>By the way, the nanoBSD disk image works fine (with heads=16 and
>sectors=63) in VMware (in that case I do not call the cust_comconsole
>function in nanoBSD)!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Sven
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