Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 09:55:44 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nanobsd image boot issues Message-ID: <200905040955.44391.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <18942.21245.958712.837180@gromit.timing.com> References: <5aaae08a0904231438v5b655056g8852dc11f1e83987@mail.gmail.com> <5aaae08a0905030520t1e942e76o6e7c9447700cf5f0@mail.gmail.com> <18942.21245.958712.837180@gromit.timing.com>
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On Sunday 03 May 2009 10:29:17 pm John Hein wrote: > Rick van der Zwet wrote at 14:20 +0200 on May 3, 2009: > > 2009/4/24 M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>: > > > In message: <5aaae08a0904231438v5b655056g8852dc11f1e83987@mail.gmail.com> > > > Rick van der Zwet <info@rickvanderzwet.nl> writes: > > > : Boot delay and fail issues on various hardware using nanobsd generated > > > : RELENG_7_1 images on a sandisk 2gb CF (SDCFH2-002G). For example while > > > : trying to run a image on a soekris net4521 (bios 1.33) it seems to > > > : take ages (up to a minute) to start booting. Same image supplied to a > > > : PC (intel Pentium 1 & award bios) using a CF->IDE converter does not > > > : seems to boot at all, neither does a net4801 (bios 1.33). Just seems > > > : trying to find a boot loader. The net4801 even bails out after a > > > : while. Output of fdisk of image list as follows: > > [snip: fdisk outputs] > > > > > Have you enabled packet mode for boot in boot0 with boot0cfg? > > > > I did. The problems turned out to be something completely different. > > Starting from soekris bios version 1.31 and upwards boot0sio does not > > work anymore, freezing forever while trying to boot initially e.g. not > > showing the following output: > > F1 FreeBSD > > F2 FreeBSD > > > > Default: F1 > > > > I generated my images like this: > > $ fdisk -i -f _.fdisk da0 > > $ boot0cfg -B -b /boot/boot0sio -o packet -s 1 -m 3 da0 > > $ bsdlabel -w -B -b /boot/boot da0s1 > > $ bsdlabel -w -B -b /boot/boot da0s2 > > $ newfs /dev/da0s1a > > $ newfs /dev/da0s2a > > $ newfs /dev/da0s3 > > $ cat _.fdisk > > # 1000944 2 63 16 0 8192 0 > > g c993 h16 s63 > > p 1 165 63 495873 > > p 2 165 495999 495873 > > p 3 165 991872 9072 > > > > When using /boot/boot0 instead of /boot/boot0sio all seems to work > > perfectly fine on all Soekris boards I could test it on (net4521, > > net4801, net5501). > > > > Next comes the interesting question when I use the some CF card in PC > > is does _not_ work. I did get the output on the screen, but when > > trying to press F1 or F2 or CR. All I got was a beep and no progress > > forward, but just remain in the same section. Default behavior or > > something off? > > Note that 7.1 (which is what I seem to recall you're using) > changed the boot loader to use real mode (see sys/boot/i386/btx). > > You could try using boot blocks from 7.0 (or 6.3) to see > if it makes a difference.. boot0 doesn't use BTX so those changes should not affect that. Luigi (luigi@) did make some changes to boot0, however, and you may want to ask him about this. -- John Baldwin
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