Re: Net 5501-70 Dead With Red Flashing Error Light

i beleive there is a limit to the size of the booting partition on the 5501.

try seperating /boot on the first primary partition, with less than 2gb
if you haven't tried that already.
Den 18-06-2015 kl. 19:34 skrev andrew fabbro:
> Revisiting this 5501-70...I subsequently got a new power supply based
> on a suggestion here.  Specifically this one from Soekris:
>
> http://soekris.com/products/psu/psu-12v-3-0a-world.html
>
> What I see now is that it boots fine and I was able to install OpenBSD
> via pxeboot, but subsequently it fails when booting from CF, as shown
> below.  I did try a different CF card and it installed and booted a
> couple times but then went back to this same error.  If I boot
> diskless into a ramdisk, I'm able to mount the CF card filesystems
> just fine and read from them - every time - so I'm really confused and
> can only assume there's something bad in the CF controller, or the way
> it's initialized at boot.
>
> I'm wondering:
>
> (1) if the POST is right...looks strange between 'r' and 't'.  It
> consistently shows that.
>
> (2) If there is any significance to the '+' and '*' after the 'hd0'
>
> (3) Any other settings I should look at?  As I said, after install, it
> booted successfully a couple times often the CF card before getting
> into the state below, and now it consistently boots (or rather fails
> to boot) with those errors.  Boot from F0 (network) is fine.
>
>
>
>
> POST: 012345689bcefghips1234ajklnopqr,,,tvwxy
>
> comBIOS ver. 1.33c 20080626  Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Soekris Engineering.
>
> net5501
>
> 0512 Mbyte Memory                        CPU Geode LX 500 Mhz
>
> Pri Mas  CF_Card                         LBA Xlt 971-255-63  7807 Mbyte
>
> Slot   Vend Dev  ClassRev Cmd  Stat CL LT HT  Base1    Base2   Int
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> 0:01:2 1022 2082 10100000 0006 0220 08 00 00 A0000000 00000000 10
> 0:06:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E101 A0004000 11
> 0:07:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E201 A0004100 05
> 0:08:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E301 A0004200 09
> 0:09:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E401 A0004300 12
> 0:17:0 13A3 0020 0B400000 0116 0280 08 40 00 A0005000 A0006000 15
> 0:20:0 1022 2090 06010003 0009 02A0 08 40 80 00006001 00006101
> 0:20:2 1022 209A 01018001 0005 02A0 08 00 00 00000000 00000000
> 0:21:0 1022 2094 0C031002 0006 0230 08 00 80 A0010000 00000000 07
> 0:21:1 1022 2095 0C032002 0006 0230 08 00 00 A0011000 00000000 07
>
>   1 Seconds to automatic boot.   Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor.
> Using drive 0, partition 3.
> Loading.....
> probing: pc0 com0 com1 pci mem[639K 511M a20=on]
> disk: hd0+*
>>> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 3.26
> open(hd0a:/etc/boot.conf): Unknown error: code 100
> boot>
> cannot open hd0a:/etc/random.seed: Unknown error: code 100
> booting hd0a:/bsd: open hd0a:/bsd: Unknown error: code 100
>   failed(100). will try /bsd
> boot>
> cannot open hd0a:/etc/random.seed: Invalid argument
> booting hd0a:/bsd: open hd0a:/bsd: Invalid argument
>   failed(22). will try /bsd
> Turning timeout off.
> boot>
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 4:32 PM, andrew fabbro <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I have a Soekris Net 5501-70.  I bought it second-hand and it's worked fine
>> for about six months.
>>
>> A few days ago it stopped responding and upon checking it, I find the power
>> and error lights are both flashing rapidly.
>>
>> It doesn't respond on its serial port (not even POST messages at boot).  I
>> tried removing both the CF card and the hard drive and this did not make any
>> difference.
>>
>> Here is a video of the lights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmOKcBwx3FM
>>
>> This seems similar to:
>> http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2009-April/015734.html
>>
>> Any thoughts or hope?
>>
>>
>> --
>> andrew fabbro
>> [email protected]
>> blog: https://raindog308.com
>>
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