Are you running with a SATA drive? (and no PATA/no CF)? Are you running GENERIC, or something else? -- David E. Cross
Ebbe Hjorth wrote: > 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
