On 4/29/23 21:42, Paul de Weerd wrote:
The 4GB CF card in an old ALIX machine failed. I swapped the card
with a new (32GB) one and reinstalled, but now during boot I get:
Afaik old Soekris/Alix machines cannot boot from CF bigger then $something.
I had a similar issue with my Net-5501.
Giovanni
--- booting from local storage ---------------------------------------
PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.99
640 KB Base Memory
261120 KB Extended Memory
01F0 Master 848A SDCFXS-032G
Phys C/H/S 62041/16/63 Log C/H/S 3892/255/63 LBA
Using drive 0, partition 3;
No O/S
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When I use the boot loader from TFTP I can boot from disk just fine:
--- booting from network ---------------------------------------------
PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.99
640 KB Base Memory
261120 KB Extended Memory
01F0 Master 848A SDCFXS-032G
Phys C/H/S 62041/16/63 Log C/H/S 3892/255/63 LBA
Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082)
Copyright (C) 1997,1998,1999 Intel Corporation
VIA Rhine III Management Adapter v2.43 (2005/12/15)
CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 0D B9 14 6C 58
CLIENT IP: 192.168.34.248 MASK: 255.255.255.0 DHCP IP: 192.168.34.1
GATEWAY IP: 192.168.34.1
probing: pc0 com0 pxe![2.1] mem[640K 255M a20=on]
disk: hd0
net: mac 00:0d:b9:14:6c:58, ip 192.168.34.248, server 192.168.34.2
OpenBSD/i386 PXEBOOT 3.45
open(tftp:/etc/boot.conf): Operation not permitted
boot> stty com0 38400
boot> set tty com0
switching console to com0
OpenBSD/i386 PXEBOOT 3.45
boot> boot hd0a:/bsd
booting hd0a:/bsd: 10615315+2581508+204808+0+1134592
[740729+107+609424+659874]=0xfc9e58
entry point at 0x201000
[ using 2010712 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) 1995-2023 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. https://www.OpenBSD.org
OpenBSD 7.3-current (GENERIC) #691: Fri Apr 28 15:28:14 MDT 2023
dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
RTC BIOS diagnostic error 80<clock_battery>
real mem = 267931648 (255MB)
avail mem = 245862400 (234MB)
random: good seed from bootblocks
mpath0 at root
scsibus0 at mpath0: 256 targets
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: date 12/10/07, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfceb2
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x10000
pcibios0: pcibios_get_intr_routing - function not supported
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing information unavailable.
pcibios0: PCI bus #0 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xe0000/0xa800
cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor)
cpu0: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS ("AuthenticAMD" 586-class) 499
MHz, 05-0a-02
cpu0: FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,CX8,SEP,PGE,CMOV,CFLUSH,MMX,MMXX,3DNOW2,3DNOW
mtrr: K6-family MTRR support (2 registers)
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "AMD Geode LX" rev 0x33
glxsb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 2 "AMD Geode LX Crypto" rev 0x00: RNG AES
vr0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 "VIA VT6105M RhineIII" rev 0x96: irq 10, address
00:0d:b9:14:6c:58
ukphy0 at vr0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 3: OUI 0x004063,
model 0x0034
vr1 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "VIA VT6105M RhineIII" rev 0x96: irq 11, address
00:0d:b9:14:6c:59
ukphy1 at vr1 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 3: OUI 0x004063,
model 0x0034
vr2 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "VIA VT6105M RhineIII" rev 0x96: irq 12, address
00:0d:b9:14:6c:5a
ukphy2 at vr2 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 3: OUI 0x004063,
model 0x0034
glxpcib0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "AMD CS5536 ISA" rev 0x03: rev 3, 32-bit
3579545Hz timer, watchdog, gpio, i2c
gpio0 at glxpcib0: 32 pins
iic0 at glxpcib0
maxtmp0 at iic0 addr 0x4c: lm86
pciide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 2 "AMD CS5536 IDE" rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0
wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <SDCFXS-032G>
wd0: 1-sector PIO, LBA48, 30535MB, 62537328 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4
pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled)
ohci0 at pci0 dev 15 function 4 "AMD CS5536 USB" rev 0x02: irq 15, version 1.0,
legacy support
ehci0 at pci0 dev 15 function 5 "AMD CS5536 USB" rev 0x02: irq 15
usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub0 at usb0 configuration 1 interface 0 "AMD EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00
addr 1
isa0 at glxpcib0
isadma0 at isa0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
com0: console
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
spkr0 at pcppi0
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16
usb1 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1 configuration 1 interface 0 "AMD OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00
addr 1
nvram: invalid checksum
vscsi0 at root
scsibus1 at vscsi0: 256 targets
softraid0 at root
scsibus2 at softraid0: 256 targets
root on wd0a (ccd1db21646168f7.a) swap on wd0b dump on wd0b
clock: unknown CMOS layout
WARNING: bad clock chip time
WARNING: CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
Automatic boot in progress: starting file system checks.
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If I understand correctly, the 'No O/S' bit comes from the MBR
(/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/stand/mbr/mbr.S), it indicates it can't find
the bootloader on disk, so I re-ran installboot which seemed to work
fine:
--- installboot -v wd0 -----------------------------------------------
Using / as root
installing bootstrap on /dev/rwd0c
using first-stage /usr/mdec/biosboot, second-stage /usr/mdec/boot
copying /usr/mdec/boot to //boot
looking for superblock at 65536
found valid ffs2 superblock
//boot is 6 blocks x 16384 bytes
fs block shift 2; part offset 64; inode block 96, offset 1904
expecting 64-bit fs blocks (incr 4)
master boot record (MBR) at sector 0
partition 3: type 0xA6 offset 64 size 62537264
/usr/mdec/biosboot will be written at sector 64
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But the result is the same: the machine doesn't boot (unexpectedly -
the installer did run installboot while installing the system).
Trying to reproduce in an i386 vmm VM, everything worked fine there,
so I'm suspecting it's something to do with the hardware, perhaps CHS
vs LBA? Anybody an idea what this could be?
Paul
