Try Bios 1.33c. May or may not help - but it won't harm it :)
From: Ebbe Hjorth Sent: Wed 09/12/2009 22:31 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Soekris] new net5501 tech question (FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE SATABoot issues) SATA drive and generic kernel. > 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
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