Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 10:34:54 +0200 From: Rick van der Zwet <info@rickvanderzwet.nl> To: Paul Schenkeveld <fb-embedded@psconsult.nl> Cc: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nanobsd image boot issues Message-ID: <5aaae08a0905050134i6b620c37j3bd107e61e7e39a4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090505081420.GA72340@psconsult.nl> References: <5aaae08a0904231438v5b655056g8852dc11f1e83987@mail.gmail.com> <20090423.162427.-1543901316.imp@bsdimp.com> <5aaae08a0905030520t1e942e76o6e7c9447700cf5f0@mail.gmail.com> <20090505081420.GA72340@psconsult.nl>
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2009/5/5 Paul Schenkeveld <fb-embedded@psconsult.nl>:
> On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 02:20:18PM +0200, Rick van der Zwet wrote:
>> 2009/4/24 M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>:
>> > In message: <5aaae08a0904231438v5b655056g8852dc11f1e83987@mail.gmail.c=
om>
>> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Rick van der Zwet <info@rickvanderzwet.nl> writ=
es:
>> > : Boot delay and fail issues on various hardware using nanobsd generat=
ed
>> > : RELENG_7_1 images on a sandisk 2gb CF (SDCFH2-002G). For example whi=
le
>> > : 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:
>> =A0 =A0F1 =A0 FreeBSD
>> =A0 =A0F2 =A0 FreeBSD
>>
>> =A0 =A0Default: F1
>
> Yesterday I did a complete nanobsd build from scratch, sources checked
> out with RELENG_7_1 tag (gave me 7.1p5) and with the default boot loader
> (boot0sio), packet mode is on.
Interesting, could you share your nanobsd configuration and if
possible one of the images so I could test them over here?
Configuration I am using could be found at:
http://svn.wirelessleiden.nl/svn/projects/iris/nanobsd/cfg/nanobsd.wlei=
den
/Rick
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