Is anybody else seeing cold boot failures on Soekris Net5501-70 with comBIOS v1.33b and OpenBSD 4.3? I asked earlier on the soekris-tech list, received no replies.
The console shows the following, and then hangs for about five seconds: 1 Seconds to automatic boot. Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor. Using drive 0, partition 3. Loading... probing: pc0 com0 com1 pci mem[639K 511M a20=on] disk: hd0+ The cursor sits at the '+' for several seconds, then a '*' is printed, then error messages: disk: hd0+* >> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 3.01 open(hd0a:/etc/boot.conf): Unknown error: code 102 boot> booting hd0a:/bsd: open hd0a:/bsd: Unknown error: code 102 failed(102). will try /bsd boot> booting hd0a:/bsd: open hd0a:/bsd: Invalid argument failed(22). will try /bsd Turning timeout off. boot> If I now type 'machine diskinfo' at the prompt, I see the following: boot> machine diskinfo Disk BIOS# Type Cyls Heads Secs Flags Checksum hd0 0x80 label 971 64 63 0x1 0x0 boot> If I type 'reboot' at the prompt, then on the second try, the disk line reads "disk: hd0+" (no *, no delay), and in diskinfo the "Flags' entry is different, a checksum is shown, and booting is ultimately successful! Using drive 0, partition 3. Loading... probing: pc0 com0 com1 pci mem[639K 511M a20=on] disk: hd0+ >> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 3.01 boot> machine diskinfo Disk BIOS# Type Cyls Heads Secs Flags Checksum hd0 0x80 label 971 64 63 0x2 0xc7f794bc boot> Looking through the source code for 'boot', I think the '*' indicates getdisklabel() failed? I am not sure what the cause or fix would be. Without upgrading comBIOS (to "ver. 1.33b 20080501"), the compactflash card (Kingston 2GB) isn't detected at all. Any ideas? Thanks, Kevin
