From owner-freebsd-small Tue Feb 18 19: 2:29 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FDE437B401 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:02:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.tenebras.com (laptop.tenebras.com [66.92.188.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B83AE43F85 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:02:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kudzu@tenebras.com) Received: (qmail 88199 invoked from network); 19 Feb 2003 03:02:26 -0000 Received: from sapphire.tenebras.com (HELO tenebras.com) (192.168.188.241) by 0 with SMTP; 19 Feb 2003 03:02:26 -0000 Message-ID: <3E52F3C2.3000509@tenebras.com> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:02:26 -0800 From: Michael Sierchio User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com, small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Soekris] summary and patch for CF problems in booting the 4501 References: <20030218164802.A484@xorpc.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <20030218164802.A484@xorpc.icir.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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