Contributed by jose on from the quality-assurance dept.
At the request of the OpenBSD developers, you are invited to test the
latest snapshots on the ftp server to verify a last minute fix
in the boot blocks (version 2.02). Please mail your report to:
henning@openbsd.org when you test: something like
i386:Serverworks SLC,P42.4:CD34.iso+FTP install(VERSION 2.02
boot block):WORKS:X GOOD (ATI RADEON 7500)
Be sure to say arch, something about what it is, what install method
you used, and be sure to indicate whether or not you had the VERSION
2.02 boot block. Test X if you can and say if you did.
Also start testing packages (as opposed to ports), since those also go on the CD. Thanks!
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By Jedi/Sector One () j@pureftpd.org on http://www.skymobile.com/
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By Wim () on
vid -d /dev/ugen0.00 | xv -
crw-rw---- 1 root wheel 63, 0 Dec 17 2002 /dev/ugen0.00
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Jan 9 2003 /dev/ugen0.00.1@ -> ugen0.01
crw-rw---- 1 root wheel 63, 1 Dec 17 2002 /dev/ugen0.01
ugen0 at uhub2 port 1
ugen0: OmniVision OV511+ Camera, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 4
By chill () on
I have a Soekris 4501 and it has problems booting off some CF cards because those cards can't handle multisector transfers during boot.
There are patches for the FreeBSD and NetBSD bootloader to have pbr.S and biosboot.S fixed to handle only single sector transfers. There was no such patch for OpenBSD that I could find, and my assembly skills were developed on a CBM 6502 and IBM 4381 -- not up to par.
I just cajoled the individual who did the NetBSD patch to do one for OpenBSD and he e-mailed it over. I've been working on that for the last two days...
and NOW they change the code! Argh!
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By Federico () fgsch@lodoss.net on mailto:fgsch@lodoss.net
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By chill () on
I'm d/ling the new snapshots and will test later today and fill out reports.
I have another issue (machine not booting OpenBSD if anything USB is plugged in, but USB stuff works if plugged in after successful boot). I'll file the reports, etc. once I test with the latest snapshots.
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By Brian () on
That said, I haven't had any problems with getting the cards we use to boot 3.4 with the new bootloader.
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By Robert Granger () robertgranger AT yahoo DOT com on mailto:robertgranger AT yahoo DOT com
Any chance you would be willing to share that working combo of soekris and CF cards. I am looking at the soekris 4801 and a 1gb SanDisk card.
Thanks for sharing
Rob
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By Nate Tobik () ntobik@hotmail.com on mailto:ntobik@hotmail.com
I worked on some Soekris boxes for a while earlier this summer. They were a pain, we couldn't get the CF to boot right, what we did was do a PXE boot with linux and the Soekris booted over the network then loaded it's file system on NFS. It worked great, then we created the filesystem on the CF/Microdrive and rebooted w/o the PXE boot. The Soekris box booted off the CF without a problem. We did this in linux, we had to compile a custom kernel for it, just remember to compile in support for the processor the Soekris has the (Elan).
As for the CF cards, we used SanDisk 256, worked great, and a IBM 1gig Microdrive, also worked great. Don't know about readers because we netbooted. Hope this helps.
Nate
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By markus () markus@openbsd.org on mailto:markus@openbsd.org
CF writers (cardbus) and different CFs, but
i mostly use SanDisk. only thing you need
to make sure you use the same CHS mapping as
the soekris bios, when you are creating the
bootblock. newer soekris bioses print
the mapping, so this gets trivial.
By Anonymous Coward () on
For the CF, we use 32Mb Memorex or 128Mb "Mr. Flash" cards, depending on the application.
By mirabile () mirabile@bsdcow.net on http://MirBSD.BSDadvocacy.org/
requests during [CD-ROM] boot) seems to be the
reason for a large number of "bad magic" during
CD-ROM install I've seen in the last couple of
weeks. The BIOSes of many notebooks are broken in
that respect, too.
You are making me go through my rewritten boot
code again, you know that?
I'm unclear about how to handle it. Holding
the SHIFT key while booting enables single-block
transfers? [does this work on soekris, do they
have the normal BIOS functions and are these
actually functional? please drop me a mail]
A different solution would be to go for single-
block transfers after bad magic.
The easiest solution would be a different boot
sector, but...
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By mirabile () mirabile@bsdcow.net on http://mirbsd.bsdadvocacy.org/active/cvsweb.cgi/sr
works for all of you.
See this posting to misc@ for reference:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?m=106348283112951
By Wim () wim@kd85.com on http://soekris.kd85.com
finally make a sector read instead of byte read modification to the bootloader...
The most reliable CF I found so far is the Kingston CF/64-s (not the CF/64) and the Kingston CF/32.
The 2.02 bootblocks still work fine on those:
Using Drive: 0 Partition: 3
reading boot......
probing: pc0 com0 com1 pci mem[639K 63M a20=on]
disk: hd0+
>> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 2.02
switching console to com0
com0: changing speed to 19200 baud
com0: change your terminal to match!
com0: will change speed in 5 seconds....
com0: console is at 19200 baud
boot>
booting hd0a:/bsd:
4462484|
+838332 [58+204144/
+181627-
]=0x56c714
entry point at 0x100120
[ using 386244 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ]
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1995-2003 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org
By Jeffrey () on
This is especially true when I have perfectly good source trees to build from, and `make build' takes an hour or two. I never do snapshots for this very reason. Granted, I'll happily do snapshots when it is required... For example when i386 went ELF =)
So, can anyone give some insight as to the relative value of build vs. snapshot download..?
Of course, testing packages over ports is perfectly understandable though!
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By Anonymous Coward () on
sometimes i install a snapshot over make build just for that nice clean fresh install feeling. who says we dont know how to party?
By tedu () on
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