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NET5501 Boot Problem
by eternity-2
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Hi!
I have a problem with a whole bunch of NET5501:s. I have read some posts with similar problems, but not exactly this, I think, so I post my problem: On a Cold boot my CF Card is detected: Pri Mas CF CARD 1GB LBA Xlt 983-32-63 990 Mbyte Then at boot: GRUB Loading stage1.5. GRUB loading, please wait... Error 25 --- If I press ctrl-p, and at once in combios makes a "reboot" everything works OK, and GRUB can load correctly. I have used lots of net5501 boxes with this distribution (same image file I write to the CF card) without any trouble at all. I have tried upgrading BIOS to 1.33c version, but no change. Any ideas? Could it be the flash card? Or some defect on these batch of boards? Regards, Chris _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@... http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech |
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Re: NET5501 Boot Problem
by Sargun Dhillon
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Don't use Grub. It is way too beefy for what you need. Use syslinux!
It's much simpler, and easier. Additionally, it is far more mature than the grub project. Eternity wrote: > Hi! > > I have a problem with a whole bunch of NET5501:s. I have read some posts > with similar problems, but not exactly this, I think, so I post my > problem: > > On a Cold boot my CF Card is detected: > > Pri Mas CF CARD 1GB LBA Xlt 983-32-63 990 Mbyte > > Then at boot: > > GRUB Loading stage1.5. > > GRUB loading, please wait... > Error 25 > > --- > > If I press ctrl-p, and at once in combios makes a "reboot" everything > works OK, and GRUB can load correctly. > > I have used lots of net5501 boxes with this distribution (same image file > I write to the CF card) without any trouble at all. I have tried upgrading > BIOS to 1.33c version, but no change. > > Any ideas? Could it be the flash card? Or some defect on these batch of > boards? > > Regards, > Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > Soekris-tech@... > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > -- +1.925.202.9485 Sargun Dhillon deCarta sdhillon@... www.decarta.com _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@... http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech |
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Re: NET5501 Boot Problem
by Chris Babcock-3
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Eternity wrote:
> Hi! > > I have a problem with a whole bunch of NET5501:s. I have read some posts > with similar problems, but not exactly this, I think, so I post my > problem: > > On a Cold boot my CF Card is detected: > > Pri Mas CF CARD 1GB LBA Xlt 983-32-63 990 Mbyte > > Then at boot: > > GRUB Loading stage1.5. > > GRUB loading, please wait... > Error 25 > > --- > > If I press ctrl-p, and at once in combios makes a "reboot" everything > works OK, and GRUB can load correctly. > > I have used lots of net5501 boxes with this distribution (same image file > I write to the CF card) without any trouble at all. I have tried upgrading > BIOS to 1.33c version, but no change. > > Any ideas? Could it be the flash card? Or some defect on these batch of > boards? > unit, try swapping the flash into it and see if you get the same error. If another known working unit does the same thing, you probably have one of the 5501 boards with issues (RMA to resolve). If the error persists, it's probably bad CF. One other possibility... Did you image the CF or do the install from a different system? If you did, there are often disk geometry issues in the install, which can and often do cause issues, esp with boot loaders. The only safe way to make sure the geometry is correct on a load is to load on the exact same type of system (so in this case, another 5501). Grub manual error code link: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Stage1_002e5-errors According to the grub manual Error 25 in stage 1.5 is... 25 : Disk read error This error is returned if there is a disk read error when trying to probe or read data from a particular disk. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@... http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech |
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Re: NET5501 Boot Problem
by Andy Michaels
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Then at boot: I used LILO and that solved my error 25 problems -Andy _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@... http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech |
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Re: NET5501 Boot Problem
by Bill Maas-2
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Hi Eternity,
In addition to everything proposed so far: take a look at "disk geometry issues" on the Soekris Wiki. Those may also cause problems with GRUB. If that is the problem, just boot with Lilo or Syslinux (which is the smallest boot loader for Linux I think, an at least the easiest to configure). Bill On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 17:35 +0200, Eternity wrote: > Hi! > > I have a problem with a whole bunch of NET5501:s. I have read some posts > with similar problems, but not exactly this, I think, so I post my > problem: > > On a Cold boot my CF Card is detected: > > Pri Mas CF CARD 1GB LBA Xlt 983-32-63 990 Mbyte > > Then at boot: > > GRUB Loading stage1.5. > > GRUB loading, please wait... > Error 25 > > --- > > If I press ctrl-p, and at once in combios makes a "reboot" everything > works OK, and GRUB can load correctly. > > I have used lots of net5501 boxes with this distribution (same image file > I write to the CF card) without any trouble at all. I have tried upgrading > BIOS to 1.33c version, but no change. > > Any ideas? Could it be the flash card? Or some defect on these batch of > boards? > > Regards, > Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > Soekris-tech@... > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > "There is nothing to worry about" - unknown _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@... http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech |
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Re: NET5501 Boot Problem
by eternity-2
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Hi! Yes, I thought of that also, but I have used the same image on several net5501 that is working just fine, so why not these? Also, if it was a disk geometry problem - why would it work after a "warm reboot", but not a "cold" one? For me, it seems like either some problem with the net5501 itself or that this series of flashcards are causing something to happen. Maybe LILO or syslinux can solve this, but I would like to find out why this happens. I am not so glad in having several images to deal with when preparing the boxes.. Chris On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Bill Maas wrote: > Hi Eternity, > > In addition to everything proposed so far: take a look at "disk geometry > issues" on the Soekris Wiki. Those may also cause problems with GRUB. > > If that is the problem, just boot with Lilo or Syslinux (which is the > smallest boot loader for Linux I think, an at least the easiest to > configure). > > Bill > > On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 17:35 +0200, Eternity wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I have a problem with a whole bunch of NET5501:s. I have read some posts >> with similar problems, but not exactly this, I think, so I post my >> problem: >> >> On a Cold boot my CF Card is detected: >> >> Pri Mas CF CARD 1GB LBA Xlt 983-32-63 990 Mbyte >> >> Then at boot: >> >> GRUB Loading stage1.5. >> >> GRUB loading, please wait... >> Error 25 >> >> --- >> >> If I press ctrl-p, and at once in combios makes a "reboot" everything >> works OK, and GRUB can load correctly. >> >> I have used lots of net5501 boxes with this distribution (same image file >> I write to the CF card) without any trouble at all. I have tried upgrading >> BIOS to 1.33c version, but no change. >> >> Any ideas? Could it be the flash card? Or some defect on these batch of >> boards? >> >> Regards, >> Chris >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Soekris-tech mailing list >> Soekris-tech@... >> http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech >> > -- > "There is nothing to worry about" - unknown > > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@... http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech |
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Re: NET5501 Boot Problem
by Bill Maas-2
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Hi Eternity,
On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 00:49 +0200, Eternity wrote: > Hi! > > Yes, I thought of that also, but I have used the same image on several > net5501 that is working just fine, so why not these? Also, if it was a > disk geometry problem - why would it work after a "warm reboot", but not > a "cold" one? > > For me, it seems like either some problem with the net5501 itself or > that this series of flashcards are causing something to happen. You're right, I think that the GRUB error code for disk geometry trouble (which it sees as a "corrupted fs") is a different one. It's reported on several occasions in the archives. > Maybe LILO or syslinux can solve this, but I would like to find out > why this happens. I am not so glad in having several images to deal with > when preparing the boxes.. With those at least you never have to worry about DG trouble. Anyway, I'm biased on this issue, I didn't like the way in which the otherwise excellent Lilo was "obsoleted" in some GNU/Linux realms. I would use Lilo in all cases, if only because I can't remember ever having seen a posting about "Lilo unable to boot" on this list. GRUB on the other hand is a regular visitor..;) Bill > Chris > > > On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Bill Maas wrote: > > > Hi Eternity, > > > > In addition to everything proposed so far: take a look at "disk geometry > > issues" on the Soekris Wiki. Those may also cause problems with GRUB. > > > > If that is the problem, just boot with Lilo or Syslinux (which is the > > smallest boot loader for Linux I think, an at least the easiest to > > configure). > > > > Bill > > > > On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 17:35 +0200, Eternity wrote: > >> Hi! > >> > >> I have a problem with a whole bunch of NET5501:s. I have read some posts > >> with similar problems, but not exactly this, I think, so I post my > >> problem: > >> > >> On a Cold boot my CF Card is detected: > >> > >> Pri Mas CF CARD 1GB LBA Xlt 983-32-63 990 Mbyte > >> > >> Then at boot: > >> > >> GRUB Loading stage1.5. > >> > >> GRUB loading, please wait... > >> Error 25 > >> > >> --- > >> > >> If I press ctrl-p, and at once in combios makes a "reboot" everything > >> works OK, and GRUB can load correctly. > >> > >> I have used lots of net5501 boxes with this distribution (same image file > >> I write to the CF card) without any trouble at all. I have tried upgrading > >> BIOS to 1.33c version, but no change. > >> > >> Any ideas? Could it be the flash card? Or some defect on these batch of > >> boards? > >> > >> Regards, > >> Chris > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Soekris-tech mailing list > >> Soekris-tech@... > >> http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > >> > > -- > > "There is nothing to worry about" - unknown > > > > > > "There is nothing to worry about" - unknown _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@... http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech |
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Re: NET5501 Boot Problem
by eternity-2
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After some testing I found out that Sandisk Ultra II 2GB Flash worked perfect. In my old installations I used a smaller Sandisk that also worked. Kingston flashcards are no good then. Chris On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Steve Clark wrote: > Hello, > > Well I tried 1.33c on my 5501 with my Transcend TS4GCF266 CF and it made things > worst. I was unable to get FreeBSD to boot - it always hangs at mountroot saying it > can't find the root device. > > When the 5501 is cold booted I get about a 10-15 sec pause before it recognizes the CF device > with either 1.33c or 1.33b. With both 133.b and 133.c it will start loading the FreeBSD kernel > then there will be a long pause FreeBSD is trying to detect the hard drive > > atapci0: <AMD CS5536 UDMA100 controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xe000-0xe00f at device 20.2 on pci0 > ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0 > ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0 > > then it will continue on detecting other devices and when it gets to the point to mount the root filesystem > it says it can't find it. > > If at this point with 1.33b I press the reset button on the 5501 the Transcend CF is immediately recognized and > FreeBSD boots up to completion with no problems. > > With 1.33c if I press the reset button - there again is a long pause during POST before the CF is recognized and > again FreeBSD hangs at can't mountroot. > > I tried several time with 1.33c before downgrading the bios back to 1.33b which then immediately boot up fine. > > There are voluminous specs for the Transcend CF online at the Transcend web site. > > Steve > > Wim Vandeputte mailinglist only wrote: >> That is a BIOS problem. >> >> You see this with 1.33c? Please send you info to soren@... >> >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 03:47:33PM -0400, Steve Clark wrote: >> >>> Wim Vandeputte mailinglist only wrote: >>> >>>> hey, >>>> >>>> This is actually the same error you see with FreeBSD and OpenBSD when >>>> the BIOS has problems recognising the CF. You can spot it when there is >>>> a 20 second delay when detecting the CF and when the bootloader tries >>>> any disk activity >>>> >>>> comBIOS ver. 1.33c 20080626 Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Soekris Engineering. >>>> >>>> net5501 >>>> >>>> 0256 Mbyte Memory CPU Geode LX 434 Mhz >>>> >>>> Pri Mas SILICONSYSTEMS INC 1GB LBA Xlt 1015-32-63 1023 Mbyte >>>> >>>> Slot Vend Dev ClassRev Cmd Stat CL LT HT Base1 Base2 Int >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> 0:01:2 1022 2082 10100000 0006 0220 08 00 00 A0000000 00000000 10 >>>> 0:06:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E101 A0004000 11 >>>> 0:07:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E201 A0004100 05 >>>> 0:08:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E301 A0004200 09 >>>> 0:09:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E401 A0004300 12 >>>> 0:20:0 1022 2090 06010003 0009 02A0 08 40 80 00006001 00006101 >>>> 0:20:2 1022 209A 01018001 0005 02A0 08 00 00 00000000 00000000 >>>> 0:21:0 1022 2094 0C031002 0006 0230 08 00 80 A0005000 00000000 15 >>>> 0:21:1 1022 2095 0C032002 0006 0230 08 00 00 A0006000 00000000 15 >>>> >>>> 1 Seconds to automatic boot. Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor. >>>> Using drive 0, partition 3. >>>> Loading... >>>> probing: pc0 com0 com1 pci mem[639K 255M a20=on] >>>> disk: hd0+* >>>> >>>> >>>>>> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 3.01 >>>> >>>> open(hd0a:/etc/boot.conf): Unknown error: code 102 >>>> boot> reboot >>>> Rebooting... >>>> exit >>>> >>>> >>>> POST: 012345689bcefghips1234ajklnopqr,,,tvwxy >>>> >>>> >>>> comBIOS ver. 1.33c 20080626 Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Soekris Engineering. >>>> >>>> net5501 >>>> >>>> 0256 Mbyte Memory CPU Geode LX 434 Mhz >>>> >>>> Pri Mas SILICONSYSTEMS INC 1GB LBA Xlt 1015-32-63 1023 Mbyte >>>> >>>> Slot Vend Dev ClassRev Cmd Stat CL LT HT Base1 Base2 Int >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> 0:01:2 1022 2082 10100000 0006 0220 08 00 00 A0000000 00000000 10 >>>> 0:06:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E101 A0004000 11 >>>> 0:07:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E201 A0004100 05 >>>> 0:08:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E301 A0004200 09 >>>> 0:09:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E401 A0004300 12 >>>> 0:20:0 1022 2090 06010003 0009 02A0 08 40 80 00006001 00006101 >>>> 0:20:2 1022 209A 01018001 0005 02A0 08 00 00 00000000 00000000 >>>> 0:21:0 1022 2094 0C031002 0006 0230 08 00 80 A0005000 00000000 15 >>>> 0:21:1 1022 2095 0C032002 0006 0230 08 00 00 A0006000 00000000 15 >>>> >>>> 1 Seconds to automatic boot. Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor. >>>> Using drive 0, partition 3. >>>> Loading... >>>> probing: pc0 com0 com1 pci mem[639K 255M a20=on] >>>> disk: hd0+ >>>> >>>> >>>>>> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 3.01 >>>> >>>> - >>>> com0: 19200 baud >>>> switching console to com0 >>>> >>>> >>>>>> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 3.01 >>>> >>>> boot> >>>> booting hd0a:/bsd: 5913424+1004644 [52+306864+287943]=0x72a4d4 >>>> entry point at 0x200120?? >>>> [ using 595232 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ] >>>> Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 >>>> The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. >>>> Copyright (c) 1995-2008 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:44:39AM -0700, Chris Babcock wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Eternity wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Hi! >>>>>> >>>>>> I have a problem with a whole bunch of NET5501:s. I have read some posts >>>>>> with similar problems, but not exactly this, I think, so I post my >>>>>> problem: >>>>>> >>>>>> On a Cold boot my CF Card is detected: >>>>>> >>>>>> Pri Mas CF CARD 1GB LBA Xlt 983-32-63 990 Mbyte >>>>>> >>>>>> Then at boot: >>>>>> >>>>>> GRUB Loading stage1.5. >>>>>> >>>>>> GRUB loading, please wait... >>>>>> Error 25 >>>>>> >>>>>> --- >>>>>> >>>>>> If I press ctrl-p, and at once in combios makes a "reboot" everything >>>>>> works OK, and GRUB can load correctly. >>>>>> >>>>>> I have used lots of net5501 boxes with this distribution (same image file >>>>>> I write to the CF card) without any trouble at all. I have tried upgrading >>>>>> BIOS to 1.33c version, but no change. >>>>>> >>>>>> Any ideas? Could it be the flash card? Or some defect on these batch of >>>>>> boards? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> It could be the flash or a defective board. If you have a known working >>>>> unit, try swapping the flash into it and see if you get the same >>>>> error. If another known working unit does the same thing, you probably >>>>> have one of the 5501 boards with issues (RMA to resolve). If the error >>>>> persists, it's probably bad CF. One other possibility... Did you image >>>>> the CF or do the install from a different system? If you did, there are >>>>> often disk geometry issues in the install, which can and often do cause >>>>> issues, esp with boot loaders. The only safe way to make sure the >>>>> geometry is correct on a load is to load on the exact same type of >>>>> system (so in this case, another 5501). >>>>> >>>>> Grub manual error code link: >>>>> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Stage1_002e5-errors >>>>> >>>>> According to the grub manual Error 25 in stage 1.5 is... >>>>> >>>>> 25 : Disk read error >>>>> This error is returned if there is a disk read error when trying to >>>>> probe or read data from a particular disk. >>>> >>>> http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech >>> >>> >>> Yes that is exactly what I see with my Transcend CF and FreeBSD 6.3 >>> >>> Steve >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Soekris-tech mailing list >>> Soekris-tech@... >>> http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > Soekris-tech@... > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@... http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech |
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Re: NET5501 Boot Problem
by Steve Clark
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Hello,
I have more information on the Soekris 5501 boot problem using a Transcend TS4GCF266 CF. I purchased a cheap SYBA IDE2UCF1 ide to compact flash adapter. I installed my Transcend TS4GCF266 CF into and put in a system with a pc with about a 5 year old mother board. The CF was recognize without any problem and immediately boot FreeBSD without a hitch. I also booted it up on a 2 year old Biostar TForce 6100-939 mainboard without a hitch. To me this appears to point to a problem with the Soekris Combios or the Net 5501 hardwares implementation of its CF to IDE interface. I know Soekris says use Sandisk but a 4 GB sandisk CF cost $10 more and is half as fast as the Transcend - 20mbs vs 40mbs. Steve Steve Clark wrote: > Hello, > > Well I tried 1.33c on my 5501 with my Transcend TS4GCF266 CF and it made things > worst. I was unable to get FreeBSD to boot - it always hangs at mountroot saying it > can't find the root device. > > When the 5501 is cold booted I get about a 10-15 sec pause before it recognizes the CF device > with either 1.33c or 1.33b. With both 133.b and 133.c it will start loading the FreeBSD kernel > then there will be a long pause FreeBSD is trying to detect the hard drive > > atapci0: <AMD CS5536 UDMA100 controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xe000-0xe00f at device 20.2 on pci0 > ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0 > ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0 > > then it will continue on detecting other devices and when it gets to the point to mount the root filesystem > it says it can't find it. > > If at this point with 1.33b I press the reset button on the 5501 the Transcend CF is immediately recognized and > FreeBSD boots up to completion with no problems. > > With 1.33c if I press the reset button - there again is a long pause during POST before the CF is recognized and > again FreeBSD hangs at can't mountroot. > > I tried several time with 1.33c before downgrading the bios back to 1.33b which then immediately boot up fine. > > There are voluminous specs for the Transcend CF online at the Transcend web site. > > Steve > > Wim Vandeputte mailinglist only wrote: > >>That is a BIOS problem. >> >>You see this with 1.33c? Please send you info to soren@... >> >>On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 03:47:33PM -0400, Steve Clark wrote: >> >> >>>Wim Vandeputte mailinglist only wrote: >>> >>> >>>>hey, >>>> >>>>This is actually the same error you see with FreeBSD and OpenBSD when >>>>the BIOS has problems recognising the CF. You can spot it when there is >>>>a 20 second delay when detecting the CF and when the bootloader tries >>>>any disk activity >>>> >>>>comBIOS ver. 1.33c 20080626 Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Soekris Engineering. >>>> >>>>net5501 >>>> >>>>0256 Mbyte Memory CPU Geode LX 434 Mhz >>>> >>>>Pri Mas SILICONSYSTEMS INC 1GB LBA Xlt 1015-32-63 1023 Mbyte >>>> >>>>Slot Vend Dev ClassRev Cmd Stat CL LT HT Base1 Base2 Int >>>>------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>0:01:2 1022 2082 10100000 0006 0220 08 00 00 A0000000 00000000 10 >>>>0:06:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E101 A0004000 11 >>>>0:07:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E201 A0004100 05 >>>>0:08:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E301 A0004200 09 >>>>0:09:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E401 A0004300 12 >>>>0:20:0 1022 2090 06010003 0009 02A0 08 40 80 00006001 00006101 >>>>0:20:2 1022 209A 01018001 0005 02A0 08 00 00 00000000 00000000 >>>>0:21:0 1022 2094 0C031002 0006 0230 08 00 80 A0005000 00000000 15 >>>>0:21:1 1022 2095 0C032002 0006 0230 08 00 00 A0006000 00000000 15 >>>> >>>>1 Seconds to automatic boot. Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor. >>>>Using drive 0, partition 3. >>>>Loading... >>>>probing: pc0 com0 com1 pci mem[639K 255M a20=on] >>>>disk: hd0+* >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>>OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 3.01 >>>> >>>>open(hd0a:/etc/boot.conf): Unknown error: code 102 >>>>boot> reboot >>>>Rebooting... >>>>exit >>>> >>>> >>>>POST: 012345689bcefghips1234ajklnopqr,,,tvwxy >>>> >>>> >>>>comBIOS ver. 1.33c 20080626 Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Soekris Engineering. >>>> >>>>net5501 >>>> >>>>0256 Mbyte Memory CPU Geode LX 434 Mhz >>>> >>>>Pri Mas SILICONSYSTEMS INC 1GB LBA Xlt 1015-32-63 1023 Mbyte >>>> >>>>Slot Vend Dev ClassRev Cmd Stat CL LT HT Base1 Base2 Int >>>>------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>0:01:2 1022 2082 10100000 0006 0220 08 00 00 A0000000 00000000 10 >>>>0:06:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E101 A0004000 11 >>>>0:07:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E201 A0004100 05 >>>>0:08:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E301 A0004200 09 >>>>0:09:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E401 A0004300 12 >>>>0:20:0 1022 2090 06010003 0009 02A0 08 40 80 00006001 00006101 >>>>0:20:2 1022 209A 01018001 0005 02A0 08 00 00 00000000 00000000 >>>>0:21:0 1022 2094 0C031002 0006 0230 08 00 80 A0005000 00000000 15 >>>>0:21:1 1022 2095 0C032002 0006 0230 08 00 00 A0006000 00000000 15 >>>> >>>>1 Seconds to automatic boot. Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor. >>>>Using drive 0, partition 3. >>>>Loading... >>>>probing: pc0 com0 com1 pci mem[639K 255M a20=on] >>>>disk: hd0+ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>>OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 3.01 >>>> >>>>- >>>>com0: 19200 baud >>>>switching console to com0 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>>OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 3.01 >>>> >>>>boot> >>>>booting hd0a:/bsd: 5913424+1004644 [52+306864+287943]=0x72a4d4 >>>>entry point at 0x200120?? >>>>[ using 595232 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ] >>>>Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 >>>> The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. >>>>Copyright (c) 1995-2008 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:44:39AM -0700, Chris Babcock wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Eternity wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>Hi! >>>>>> >>>>>>I have a problem with a whole bunch of NET5501:s. I have read some posts >>>>>>with similar problems, but not exactly this, I think, so I post my >>>>>>problem: >>>>>> >>>>>>On a Cold boot my CF Card is detected: >>>>>> >>>>>>Pri Mas CF CARD 1GB LBA Xlt 983-32-63 990 Mbyte >>>>>> >>>>>>Then at boot: >>>>>> >>>>>>GRUB Loading stage1.5. >>>>>> >>>>>>GRUB loading, please wait... >>>>>>Error 25 >>>>>> >>>>>>--- >>>>>> >>>>>>If I press ctrl-p, and at once in combios makes a "reboot" everything >>>>>>works OK, and GRUB can load correctly. >>>>>> >>>>>>I have used lots of net5501 boxes with this distribution (same image file >>>>>>I write to the CF card) without any trouble at all. I have tried upgrading >>>>>>BIOS to 1.33c version, but no change. >>>>>> >>>>>>Any ideas? Could it be the flash card? Or some defect on these batch of >>>>>>boards? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>>It could be the flash or a defective board. If you have a known working >>>>>unit, try swapping the flash into it and see if you get the same >>>>>error. If another known working unit does the same thing, you probably >>>>>have one of the 5501 boards with issues (RMA to resolve). If the error >>>>>persists, it's probably bad CF. One other possibility... Did you image >>>>>the CF or do the install from a different system? If you did, there are >>>>>often disk geometry issues in the install, which can and often do cause >>>>>issues, esp with boot loaders. The only safe way to make sure the >>>>>geometry is correct on a load is to load on the exact same type of >>>>>system (so in this case, another 5501). >>>>> >>>>>Grub manual error code link: >>>>>http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Stage1_002e5-errors >>>>> >>>>>According to the grub manual Error 25 in stage 1.5 is... >>>>> >>>>>25 : Disk read error >>>>> This error is returned if there is a disk read error when trying to >>>>>probe or read data from a particular disk. >>>> >>>>http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech >>> >>> >>>Yes that is exactly what I see with my Transcend CF and FreeBSD 6.3 >>> >>>Steve >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Soekris-tech mailing list >>>Soekris-tech@... >>>http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@... http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech |
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Re: NET5501 Boot Problem
by Steve Clark
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Hello,
Again replying to my own E-Mail - I attached the SYBA IDE2UCF1 to the Net 5501 ide interface it also booted without the slightest problem using the Transcend CF. Steve Steve Clark wrote: > Hello, > > I have more information on the Soekris 5501 boot problem > using a Transcend TS4GCF266 CF. > > I purchased a cheap SYBA IDE2UCF1 ide |
