Problem with NanoBSD And Alix Board not device boot

Espartano espartano.mail at gmail.com
Mon Aug 15 14:16:59 UTC 2011


On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Ask Bjørn Hansen <ask at develooper.com> wrote:
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> On Jun 5, 2011, at 10:10, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
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>>> nopacket mode is the hardest of all modes to use.  Your CF's reported geometry *MUST* be encoded properly in the nano config file.  This isn't the geometry that the CF card reader reports, but what the CF card reports in true IDE mode.  This will vary from card to card (even cards with exactly the same label). Unless your boot loader doesn't support packet mode properly, I'd strongly urge you to use packet mode.
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>> Last time I checked, the TinyBIOS used in the Alix boards does not support packet mode properly (but according to http://blog.brixandersen.dk/?p=94 this was 3 years ago, I'll try to find time to retest against a newer version of TinyBIOS).
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> One of the 0.99x firmware updates fixed that I believe (sometime in 2007 or 2008).   (I use packet mode on Alix boards for what it's worth).
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>  - ask
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Thanks for the answer, my problem was with the CF writer, it had one
pin cuted and that caused a bad written nanobsd image and not boot.


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