Re: [Soekris] BIOS 1.33 and boot FreeBSD issues (was net5501-60 CF not detected on cold boot)

2008-03-13 Thread Bill Maas
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:03 +0100, Igor Sobrado wrote: [...] > Thanks for your superb feedback! Always nice to have an in-depth discussion about almost nothing. Must keep it short this time, because I must check my Bio Sentry. Bill -- "What's a computer?" - MES ___

Re: [Soekris] BIOS 1.33 and boot FreeBSD issues (was net5501-60 CF not detected on cold boot)

2008-03-13 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Maas writes: > On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 20:51 +0100, Igor Sobrado wrote: > [...] > > 3. "Mhz" should be really "MHz", this typo hurts someone with a > >background in fundamental physics. ;-) > > > > 4. May I suggest renaming "CpuSpeed" to "CPUspeed"? (just as

Re: [Soekris] BIOS 1.33 and boot FreeBSD issues (was net5501-60 CF not detected on cold boot)

2008-03-12 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hmmm... sorry for being so picky but... would it be possible support both backspace and delete for erasing characters in a future comBIOS release? In my workstation, I need to type Ctrl+H to delete characters in the comBIOS command line; on the other hand, the keyboard works fine once the operatin

Re: [Soekris] BIOS 1.33 and boot FreeBSD issues (was net5501-60 CF not detected on cold boot)

2008-03-11 Thread Bill Maas
Hi Igor, On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 20:51 +0100, Igor Sobrado wrote: [...] > 3. "Mhz" should be really "MHz", this typo hurts someone with a >background in fundamental physics. ;-) > > 4. May I suggest renaming "CpuSpeed" to "CPUspeed"? (just as in >"BIOSentry"); CPU is an acronym. This is a

Re: [Soekris] BIOS 1.33 and boot FreeBSD issues (was net5501-60 CF not detected on cold boot)

2008-03-11 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Tancsa writes: > > Using the same flash which has this 60 second delay, I took it and > put it in another box that has the 1.33 BIOS. It boots up as > expected. However, some other problems... The first time it powered > up, it was stuck on the red error l

Re: [Soekris] BIOS 1.33 and boot FreeBSD issues (was net5501-60 CF not detected on cold boot)

2008-03-10 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:38 PM 3/10/2008, Soren Kristensen wrote: >The info missing here is: did the CF card work with an earlier >comBIOS version ? Hi, Yes it did. Worked great. Now some more details, that just make things more confusing. Using the same flash which has this 60 second delay, I took it a

Re: [Soekris] BIOS 1.33 and boot FreeBSD issues (was net5501-60 CF not detected on cold boot)

2008-03-10 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andreas Wrede writes: > > With 1.33, NetBSD boots fine but I see a delay of 130 seconds (+-2) on > every boot (warm or cold): [...] With 1.33 OpenBSD boots fine (i.e. without any delay) from a SanDisk SDCFB-4096. I have no observed problems at all when booting O

Re: [Soekris] BIOS 1.33 and boot FreeBSD issues (was net5501-60 CF not detected on cold boot)

2008-03-10 Thread Andreas Wrede
On Mar 10, 2008, at 12:38 , Soren Kristensen wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Mike Tancsa wrote: >> At 06:46 PM 3/7/2008, Brian Henderson wrote: >>> I just picked up a net5501-60 and a Compact Flash card to build a >>> router, and I have flashed the card and it works, but only on a warm >>> boot. The card i

Re: [Soekris] BIOS 1.33 and boot FreeBSD issues (was net5501-60 CF not detected on cold boot)

2008-03-10 Thread Soren Kristensen
Hi Mike, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 06:46 PM 3/7/2008, Brian Henderson wrote: >> I just picked up a net5501-60 and a Compact Flash card to build a >> router, and I have flashed the card and it works, but only on a warm >> boot. The card is not detected when the power is plugged in, but it is >> detec

Re: [Soekris] BIOS 1.33 and boot FreeBSD issues (was net5501-60 CF not detected on cold boot)

2008-03-10 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 06:46 PM 3/7/2008, Brian Henderson wrote: >I just picked up a net5501-60 and a Compact Flash card to build a >router, and I have flashed the card and it works, but only on a warm >boot. The card is not detected when the power is plugged in, but it is >detected if you press the reset button or ty