I've given up on SD boot for the moment & ordered a mSATA card. It looks like it will be easy to copy over the software & config on the USB stick.
John On 18/01/17 17:05, kp kirchdoerfer wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 18. Januar 2017, 16:42:43 schrieb John Sager: >> I've got coreboot version 20160307. According to the PC Engines website this >> introduces SD boot support. There is a 20160311 version so I may try that. > > I don't believe that will help a lot, according to the sparse notes it just > adds pxe boot, and the thread you've linked to was related to the latest BIOS. > > As I said, it still seems to be an issue and the advice from support tells > the > same story in other words :( > > kp > >> John >> >> On 18/01/17 15:40, kp kirchdoerfer wrote: >>> Hi John; >>> >>> Am Mittwoch, 18. Januar 2017, 09:41:26 schrieb John Sager: >>>> For some years I've run leaf-bering on a PC Engines Alix 2D13 board as my >>>> main router, but now I need to upgrade to a board that supports gigabit >>>> ethernet, vlans, baby jumbo frames, etc. >>>> >>>> The apu2c2 board has 3 gigabit LAN ports, 2 USB3 ports, SD card reader >>>> plus >>>> mSATA & PCI express sockets. >>>> >>>> Using Bering-uClibc_6.0.2-rc1_x86_64_syslinux_serial115200.tar.gz on a >>>> USB >>>> stick the board boots fine. However I can't get it to boot from a SD >>>> card. >>>> The bios boot (coreboot) recognises the SD card in the boot list but then >>>> hangs at the point where it should transfer to syslinux. This is >>>> obviously a PC Engines issue and not one for Leaf. There is a thread >>>> about this on PC Engines' forum: >>>> >>>> http://pcengines.info/forums/?page=post&id=1532182F-D982-4735-A4BF-7E786E >>>> C42 179 >>> >>> Do you even have installed a BIOS with SD support? >>> I've got one of the earlier borads with an older BIOS and had to update to >>> 160211 to get the wlee200nx to work, works fine with mSATA. I've updated >>> later the kernel because a user had a SD card with support for the SD >>> card, but AFAIR got no feedback since. >>> >>> But it seems, following the thredad above SD issus might not be solved >>> finally ...? >>> >>> kp >>> >>>> However the recommendation seems to be to use a mSATA card instead:( >>>> >>>> If I go down that route though that brings up another problem - the >>>> apu2c2 >>>> is the only mSATA interface I have available, and the tools required to >>>> transfer the working config from the USB stick to mSATA (fdisk, >>>> mkfs.vfat, >>>> syslinux) don't seem to be available in any of the Leaf packages. I would >>>> probably have to boot up TinyCore Linux temporarily to do the transfer. >>>> >>>> Having transferred the appropriate (5.2.4) configs from the old router, I >>>> have run into module loading problems - see my next e-mail for a >>>> discussion >>>> of this. >>>> >>>> regards, >>>> >>>> John Sager >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> --- -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >>>> engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user >>>> Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/ >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ---- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >>> engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user >>> Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/ >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user >> Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
