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Date:      Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:47:02 -0700 (MST)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        thompsa@freebsd.org
Cc:        ask@develooper.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bootmgr on pc engines wrap board
Message-ID:  <20061101.164702.-116096085.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061101220010.GB15641@heff.fud.org.nz>
References:  <BA04243B-9E9C-4E60-9525-21C90E52A6FB@develooper.com> <20061101220010.GB15641@heff.fud.org.nz>

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In message: <20061101220010.GB15641@heff.fud.org.nz>
            Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org> writes:
: On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 01:45:45PM -0800, Ask Bj?rn Hansen wrote:
: > Hi,
: > 
: > bootmgr hangs on the PC Engines WRAP board.
: > 
: > It's been brought up before on the small@ list (IIRC), but with no  
: > solution.
: > 
: > It hangs just after
: > 
: > "1   FreeBSD
: >  2   FreeBSD"
: > 
: 
: Have you set the bootloader to use serial? Set -h in /boot.config

I think he has, since there's no 'F' before 1 or 2 above.

I'm guessing the problem is that the geometry in the flash's mbr
doesn't match what the BIOS think, and chaos rules from there.

I'm guessing the solution is to enable packet mode with boot0cfg:

    boot0cfg -o packet /dev/blah

Warner



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