hey Kevin, On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 10:29:27PM -0500, K K wrote: > 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.
I've seen it but had no screen capture so far > 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> I've seen this twice, each time with BIOS 1.33b and a silicon systems CF (each time only one IDE device in the soekris, all my CF + SATA setups work under BIOS 1.33) When the system boots, normally it detects the CF really quickly and it boots just fine, but if during the booting there is a 20 something delay between POST: 012345689bcefghips1234ajklnopqr,,,tvwxy comBIOS ver. 1.33b 20080501 Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Soekris Engineering. net5501 0512 Mbyte Memory CPU Geode LX 500 Mhz [20 second delay here] and the rest: 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 then it's garanteed you'll see a delay between each disk activity action, like printing out the disk: hd0+* as you described 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+* >> 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: - I would blame it on the 1.33b soekris BIOS, not OpenBSD, due to the initial timeout I see when detecting the Pri Mas
