After several months of not using my NET5501, I upgraded the BIOS to 1.33c in preparation of installing FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. Using PXE, I installed to a Hard Drive (ATA i/f) that previously ran FreeBSD 6.2 in the 5501.
The install worked fine, however, after doing a cold restart, I noticed that the boot process would "hang" for about 20sec before recognizing the HD, then boot FreeBSD. In this situation, the o/s would ultimately fail to mount the root fs. If I then hit the RESET switch, I can usually get the system to fully boot... sometimes I need to hit RESET twice to get it to work. Once FreeBSD is running, I can issue a "reboot" command at an o/s command prompt and the system bounces as expected. There are a few very similar reports in the list archive, although it seems that they all were using CF cards. Do all 5501's flashed w/ 1.33c behave this way, or is this problem limited to a bad batch of system boards? Does Soekris believe the problems are caused by the storage devices? -tm _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
