From: "Bill Maas" <b...@stsx.org> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 1:22 AM
> On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 21:58 -0800, TechKid PC wrote: >> I finally have the necessary cables and am able to access the comBIOS via >> a >> USB->Serial->Null-Mode->Female-Gender-Changer adapter chain. > > With that you should have dealt with about 80% of standard possible > trouble. I know its a pretty convoluted setup. :-P But it is the *only* thing that worked as my laptop does not include a serial port. I am able to use the comBIOS without any problems, so it seems to be working fine. > If the Soekris site doesn't state that MicroSD cards are supported, the > odds are against you.. (this is a case of "non-standard possible > trouble") That could very well be the case. The comBIOS however does see the card and list it when I first turn it on with the proper size. Out of curiosity, do you know why some CF brands work better then others when it comes to compabilitiy? I could see if a manufacturer did not include support for a certain call or function, but if the card is booting just fine off of a desktop via a CF->IDE adapter how could it not work with a soekris box? (Asuming the disk geometry is not the issue, which mention at the bottom of this message) >> On a second note, I dont see any way to "hard reset" the bios settings >> that >> are changed via the set command. What recovery options are available if >> one >> sets an incorrect option in the combios and disables serial output (or >> something similar) making it impossible to manage the device? There is no >> removable battery and no reset jumper I can find. > > Section 2.5 of the Soekris net4801 manual, preliminary version 0.01;). I read that section in the manual, as well as the in the wiki under: http://wiki.soekris.info/What_do_all_those_BIOS_settings_do They just list what the options are for, not how to reset any of them if you are unable to see any output. From: "686f6c6d" <686f6...@googlemail.com> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 12:56 AM > I am no expert, but other than setting a unusual baudrate (which you > would have to guess then to make it work again) I see no way to > achieve such a mess-up. at least, I have not yet managed to do that. Ah ok that makes sense and could be an "answer" to my question about not seeing a reset option for the bios. If there are no settings that could be changed which could "lock" out the user then a reset feature is not needed. Ive seen many people overclock a cpu/ram, set a password and forget it, etc. in their destktop PC's bios and the only way to fix it is the reset jumper. I was worried something similar could happen with the Soekris box. I assume that the conMute setting simply prevents output from being sent to the serial port, but still accepts commands? (Such as set ConMute=Disabled) > Im' not sure from your explanation if you did this installation on a > PC or your Soekris. If it was on a PC, did you give fdisk (maybe > before, maybe during install) the correct disk geometry values as > described in http://wiki.soekris.info/What_is_this_disk_geometry_thing That could very well be the case. I didnt even think of checking the geometry values. Ill give it a try and if it does not work I will pickup a sandisk CF card. Thanks for the replies, Tom _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
