Net6501 Boot from msata fails

Hi,

I have a new net6501-50 where I tried to install pfsense 2.2.1 on (i386) 
via usb stick (memserial)

Booting from USB and installing on the Transcend mSATA SSD went fine (as 
far as I understand ). However pfsense is not booting from the msata.

Log below:


comBIOS ver. 1.41c  20121115  Copyright (C) 2000-2011 Soekris Engineering.

net6501

1024 Mbyte Memory                        CPU Atom E6xx 1000 Mhz


SATA AHCI BIOS ver. 0.61 20121115  Copyright (C) 2003-2011 Intel Corporation

Controller Bus#02, Device#06, Function#00: 02 Ports, 01 Devices
   Port-00: Hard Disk, TS32GMSA340
   Port-01: No device detected

Soekris USB Expansion ROM ver. 1.01  20111203

81: USB 01  USB 2.0 Flash Drive     Xlt 979-255-63  7867 Mbyte


Initializing Intel(R) Boot Agent GE v1.3.72
PXE 2.1 Build 089 (WfM 2.0)

  Slot   Vend Dev  ClassRev Cmd  Stat CL LT HT  Base1    Base2   Int
--------------------------------------------------------------------
00:00:0 8086 4114 06000005 0007 0000 00 00 00 00000000 00000000
00:23:0 8086 8184 06040000 0107 0010 08 00 01 1FFF1000 A0FFA000 10
00:24:0 8086 8185 06040000 0107 0010 08 00 01 3FFF2000 A2FFA100 11
00:25:0 8086 8180 06040000 0107 0010 08 00 01 5FFF4000 A4FFA300 05
00:26:0 8086 8181 06040000 0107 0010 08 00 01 0FFF1000 00FFA000 09
00:31:0 8086 8186 06010000 0003 0000 00 00 80 00000000 00000000
02:02:0 8086 8804 0C031002 0106 0010 00 00 80 A0000B00 00000000 09
02:02:1 8086 8805 0C031002 0106 0010 00 00 80 A0000C00 00000000 09
02:02:2 8086 8806 0C031002 0106 0010 00 00 80 A0000D00 00000000 09
02:02:3 8086 8807 0C032002 0106 0010 00 00 80 A0000E00 00000000 09
02:06:0 8086 880B 01060102 0107 0010 00 00 00 00000000 00000000 11
02:08:0 8086 880C 0C031002 0106 0010 00 00 80 A0004800 00000000 10
02:08:1 8086 880D 0C031002 0106 0010 00 00 80 A0004900 00000000 10
02:08:2 8086 880E 0C031002 0106 0010 00 00 80 A0004A00 00000000 10
02:08:3 8086 880F 0C032002 0106 0010 00 00 80 A0004B00 00000000 10
02:10:1 8086 8811 07000201 0107 0010 00 00 80 00001041 A0004D00 09
02:10:2 8086 8812 07000200 0107 0010 00 00 80 00001049 A0004D10 09
02:12:2 8086 8817 0C800000 0106 0010 00 00 80 00000000 A0005000 05
02:12:3 8086 8818 0C090000 0106 0010 00 00 80 00000000 A0005200 05
03:00:0 111D 803A 0604000E 0107 0010 08 00 01 3FFF2000 A2FFA100
05:00:0 8086 10D3 02000000 0107 0010 08 00 00 A1000000 00000000 09
06:00:0 8086 10D3 02000000 0107 0010 08 00 00 A2000000 00000000 10
08:00:0 111D 803A 0604000E 0107 0010 08 00 01 5FFF4000 A4FFA300
10:00:0 8086 10D3 02000000 0107 0010 08 00 00 A3000000 00000000 10
11:00:0 8086 10D3 02000000 0107 0010 08 00 00 A4000000 00000000 11


F1  pfSense
F5  Drive 1

F6 PXE
Boot:  F1
POST: 0123456789bcefghipsajklnopqr,,,tvwxy



comBIOS ver. 1.41c  20121115  Copyright (C) 2000-2011 Soekris Engineering.

net6501 ...

Here it loops (removing the USB stick makes no difference). It appears I 
face the same issue as desribed here:


https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=80.15
Unfortunately there is no solution.


Can anyone help me on this ? The fact that I already can read F1 pfSense 
makes me believe at least some part of the data on the ssd is there and 
accessible. So it might be a FreeBSD thing but I don't know.
What I tried is to install FreeBSD 10.1 as desribed here: 
http://www.macfreek.nl/memory/FreeBSD_9_on_Soekris_net6501  . This did 
work, meaning it did boot from the msata drive. I did not use the zfs 
approach as I believe pfsense is not using it.


Furthermore when I boot via a freebsd usb stick I can mount the pfsense 
partitions, I can also run gpart

# gpart show
=>      63  62533233  ada0  MBR  (30G)
         63  62533233     1  freebsd  [active]  (30G)

=>      63  62533233  diskid/DISK-20141210B8944304122D  MBR (30G)
         63  62533233                                 1  freebsd 
[active]  (30G)

=>       0  62533233  ada0s1  BSD  (30G)
          0        16          - free -  (8.0K)
         16  58338913       1  freebsd-ufs  (28G)
   58338929   4194304       2  freebsd-swap  (2.0G)

=>       0  62533233  diskid/DISK-20141210B8944304122Ds1  BSD (30G)
          0        16                                      - free - (8.0K)
         16  58338913                                   1 freebsd-ufs  (28G)
   58338929   4194304                                   2 freebsd-swap  
(2.0G)

=>       0  15734784  da0  BSD  (7.5G)
          0   1282960    1  freebsd-ufs  (626M)
    1282960  14451824       - free -  (6.9G)

=>       0  15734784  diskid/DISK-A0FD58A2  BSD  (7.5G)
          0   1282960                     1  freebsd-ufs  (626M)
    1282960  14451824                        - free -  (6.9G)

Unfortunatley I don't know what I could do know as my freebsd knowledge 
is limited. Can anyone give me some hints here ? Is it a MBR thing (if 
that exist on FreeBSD at all)

Any help is appreciated.


Marcel

_______________________________________________
Soekris-tech mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech