Problem booting nanoBSD 7.2-p4 on Alix

[Mike Tancsa]

At 03:00 PM 11/6/2009, Sven Hazejager wrote:
>All,
>
>I'm having some challenging issues booting nanoBSD 7.2-p4 on CF on an
>Alix serial-only system. Symptom: I'm seeing boot0sio fine, I can get
>into the loader etc. boot after typing "boot" or letting it timeout, I
>see "Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]..." and I get one "/" character on
>the next line but then everything stops.

Hi,
         For my Alix boxes I use

NANO_BOOT0CFG="-o nopacket -s 1 -m 3 -t 36"

For my kernel, I generally get rid of

options         ATA_STATIC_ID   # Static device numbering

to avoid issues of ad0 vs ad1 as it seems to vary from CF to CF 
manufacturer.  Otherwise I have to fiddle with
NANO_DRIVE=ad0

         ---Mike



>The loader prompt allows me to do an "ls" and I can see the files on
>the first slice just fine.
>
>This happens both with GENERIC and with my own kernel. GENERIC and my
>own kernel boot fine over PXE.
>
>Things I already tried:
>
>- Using both CHS and LBA geometry of the CF card as reported by Alix
>tinybios in nanoBSD
>- Set tinybios both to CHS and LBA mode
>- Changed nanoBSD boot0config to include "-o nopacket"
>
>Possibly I have NOT tested all combinations of above options to be
>honest, but I'm not sure if the problem lies with geometry or not...?
>At the very least I'm staring myself blind :-)
>
>By the way, the nanoBSD disk image works fine (with heads=16 and
>sectors=63) in VMware (in that case I do not call the cust_comconsole
>function in nanoBSD)!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Sven
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