Re: hang on reboot

Just for reference sake and for those that have the older BIOS revs what
rev is that boot loader included with?

On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Soren Kristensen wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> First you might want to try the new builtin BIOS master boot loader, at
> the monitor promt enter:
>
> > boot :X
>
> X can be 1 to 4, that will boot the X partition on the CF disk, assuming
> that the partition table is still there.... I believe that OpenBSD for
> some reason as default use partition 4, right ?
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Soren
>
>
> David Simmons wrote:
> >
> > > try installing the 3.1 boot loader and making sure you have
> > > the latest rev of firmware from soren...
> > >
> > > The 3.1 boot loader seems to play nicer
> >
> > Guys....I'll apologize up-front for being the Moron Of the Year...but I've
> > really monkey'ed by system up.  Was having this same ReBoot problem -
> > downloaded the 3.1 BootEasy program
> > (ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/OpenBSD/3.1/tools/booteasy/Boot.bin ) and issued
> > (according to the FAQ) the following to reinitilize the MBR:
> >
> > fdisk -i -f /root/Boot.bin wd0
> >
> > no errors...but when I reboot, I get the following:
> >
> > Soekris Engineering net4501               CPU 80486 134 Mhz
> >
> > 0064 Mbyte Memory
> >
> > Primary   Master Micron MTCF032A                         31 Mbyte
> >
> > PXE-M00: BootManage UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082)
> >
> > Slot Vend Dev  ClassRev Cmd  Stat CL LT HT  Base1    Base2   Int
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > 0:00 1022 3000 06000000 0006 2280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000 00
> > 0:18 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E001 A0000000 10
> > 0:19 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E101 A0001000 11
> > 0:20 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E201 A0002000 05
> >
> >  1 Seconds to automatic boot.   Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor.
> >
> > F4 . . . ??
> >
> > Default: F?
> >
> > But the machine now seems to be LOCKED?!?!  I've tried two different
> > terminal softwares to see if it was a problem with the term program NOT
> > being able to transmit a F4...no luck...any advice?  It seem I'll have to
> > connect the CF to an OpenBSD machine and redo - any advice on which CF
> > connection to get?
> >
> > Thanks again - Dave
>

-Ken

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