joel jaeggli [mailto:[email protected]] wrote: > I have a couple systems that required updates > to 1.33c in order to support the mass-storage > devices we choose to use.
I upgraded my bios to 1.33c, and it still doesn't work. When the bios starts, I *do* get the message that the drive exists, and I get the LBA c/h/s numbers printed. However, the motherboard won't boot from the drive. The bios claims there are no bootable devices. But, once again, after I get OpenBSD booted (via PXEboot), the disk works just fine. This indicates that the disk controller, the disk, and the cables are all good. So this looks to me like a bug in the bios. Or it might be a bug in the OpenBSD install code. Or there might be a problem in the way I laid out my disk slices which is incompatible with the comBios. > Some of this limitation is due to nature of low volume > embedded systems, by their nature they don't recieve as > much testing with different components as high-volume > systems do. people who productize around them tend to > use the same components for a really long time. It would be nice to make two lists on the Soekris Wiki: (1) known good devices, and (2) known non-working devices. Søren: can you please help by publishing relevant snippets of the bios code for booting from ide/sata drives? Thanks, Ken Hendrickson _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
