From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 23 16:46:12 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B163106566C for ; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:46:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cowens@greatbaysoftware.com) Received: from portcityhosting.com (bayringfw.portcityweb.com [64.140.243.92]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20E408FC14 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:46:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([173.14.128.81]) by portcityhosting.com with MailEnable ESMTP; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:46:08 -0500 X-WatchGuard-Mail-Exception: Allow Message-ID: <4B0ABD27.2080501@greatbaysoftware.com> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:49:43 -0500 From: Charles Owens MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-WatchGuard-AntiVirus: part scanned. clean action=allow X-ME-Bayesian: 0.000000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: No "boot0" menu on Soekris, net5501 vs net4521 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:46:12 -0000 Hello, We're working with two different Soekris models (net5501 and net4521), working withFreeBSD 7.1 (nanobsd). We've found that the two models exhibit different boot behavior. Summary: the 4521 works fine, and the 5501 doesn't seem right. Here's what we see when we boot either: net4521 (BIOS ver 1.33) -- * "boot0" menu appears (letting you pick either of two FreeBSD slices) * OS loads properly from chosen or default slice net5501 (BIOS ver 1.33c) -- * "boot0" menu does _not_ appear. * system boots directly to slice 1 or 2, as chosen via BIOS option BootPartition Have others seen this behavior? For our application, we really need the 5501 to boot just like the 4521. Is this a bug (in BIOS, I'm guessing), or am I doing something wrong? It seems like there should be a way to clear the BootPartition setting, or set it to "MBR" or somesuch. Thanks very much, Charles -- **Charles Owens** *Great Bay Software*******