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.

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-7E786EC42
>> 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
>>
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