Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:02:26 -0800 From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com, small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Soekris] summary and patch for CF problems in booting the 4501 Message-ID: <3E52F3C2.3000509@tenebras.com> In-Reply-To: <20030218164802.A484@xorpc.icir.org> References: <20030218164802.A484@xorpc.icir.org>
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Luigi Rizzo wrote: > After some investigation which consumed the best part of the day, > it turned out that the 4501 seems to have problems reading multiple > sectors at once ... Reading multiple sectors at once violates the INT13 Boot std. But you knew that. > ...on those particular CF cards (which is curious, > because I have booted successfully the soekris box with other 64M > cards). > I am unclear on where the problem is -- maybe the BIOS and the CF > disagree on the geometry, though the problem still occurs on > a 29-sector file (the natsemi.lzrom etherboot code) which > seems to fit in the first track. > > A quick and dirty patch to fix the problem in the FreeBSD loader > (boot1) and the Etherboot loader (boot1a.bin) consists in forcing > the loader to load one sector at a time. Thanks, Luigi, we've been waiting for this. I now have twice as many useful CFs as I did before. ;-) Can you get this committed, and when's the MFC? ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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