Hi, Im running FreeBSD v8.0 on Soekris 5501 without any problems.
/ Ebbe > Simply put there seems to be a delay or 'race' on the SATA boot (I am > running comBIOS 1.33). > > If I boot the system at 9600 baud, with a SATA disk, it will very > reliably *NOT* see it on boot, if I 'boot -v' (verbose boot), it will > see it (at 9600 baud), if I then increase the speed to 115200, it will > not see the disk at regular boot or verbose boot. My theory is that > the 'extra' information that is required to be sent for verbose booting > at 9600 slows it down enough for it to be probed and attached. I have > diffed the verbose boot at 9600 that worked and the one at 19200 that > did not work and there are no differences between the 2 boot sessions. > > (note the comBIOS system seems to reliably see the disk, and hand over > control to boot/loader and then the kernel, its just those probe > routines that stall/fail. I am open to it being a FreeBSD bug, I am > hoping with your experience you've seen it before). I went through the > mailing lists and have found nothing so far related to this. > > -- > David E. Cross > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
