nanobsd image boot issues

[Rick van der Zwet]

2009/5/5 Paul Schenkeveld <fb-embedded at psconsult.nl>:
> On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 02:20:18PM +0200, Rick van der Zwet wrote:
>> 2009/4/24 M. Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com>:
>> > In message: <5aaae08a0904231438v5b655056g8852dc11f1e83987 at mail.gmail.com>
>> >            Rick van der Zwet <info at rickvanderzwet.nl> writes:
>> > : Boot delay and fail issues on various hardware using nanobsd generated
>> > : RELENG_7_1 images on a sandisk 2gb CF (SDCFH2-002G). For example while
>> > : trying to run a image on a soekris net4521 (bios 1.33) it seems to
>> > : take ages (up to a minute) to start booting. Same image supplied to a
>> > : PC (intel Pentium 1 & award bios) using a CF->IDE converter does not
>> > : seems to boot at all, neither does a net4801 (bios 1.33). Just seems
>> > : trying to find a boot loader. The net4801 even bails out after a
>> > : while. Output of fdisk of image list as follows:
>> [snip: fdisk outputs]
>>
>> > Have you enabled packet mode for boot in boot0 with boot0cfg?
>>
>> I did. The problems turned out to be something completely different.
>> Starting from soekris bios version 1.31 and upwards boot0sio does not
>> work anymore, freezing forever while trying to boot initially e.g. not
>> showing the following output:
>>    F1   FreeBSD
>>    F2   FreeBSD
>>
>>    Default: F1
>
> Yesterday I did a complete nanobsd build from scratch, sources checked
> out with RELENG_7_1 tag (gave me 7.1p5) and with the default boot loader
> (boot0sio), packet mode is on.

Interesting, could you share your nanobsd configuration and if
possible one of the images so I could test them over here?

Configuration I am using could be found at:
    http://svn.wirelessleiden.nl/svn/projects/iris/nanobsd/cfg/nanobsd.wleiden

/Rick
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