Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 08:53:46 -0500 From: Espartano <espartano.mail@gmail.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ask_Bj=F8rn_Hansen?= <ask@develooper.com> Cc: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with NanoBSD And Alix Board not device boot Message-ID: <CAJaC6KZsGV9HW8Nz%2B2nwRYyePSkm-0XNsEoq66N2VzjKSFfU4w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <B03DCB85-A9C1-4AF4-8D10-ABC390BD9B35@develooper.com> References: <BANLkTikZx=uxokXcpQUi2jksgdMaUp4_%2BQ@mail.gmail.com> <E18BA1D4-C2A7-4FE7-A1A4-0C5B6FDD60DB@bsdimp.com> <81D83998-D920-4A69-ACF8-519527D3BC7F@FreeBSD.org> <B03DCB85-A9C1-4AF4-8D10-ABC390BD9B35@develooper.com>
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On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Ask Bj=F8rn Hansen <ask@develooper.com> wr= ote: > > On Jun 5, 2011, at 10:10, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > >>> nopacket mode is the hardest of all modes to use. =A0Your CF's reported= geometry *MUST* be encoded properly in the nano config file. =A0This isn't= the geometry that the CF card reader reports, but what the CF card reports= in true IDE mode. =A0This will vary from card to card (even cards with exa= ctly the same label). Unless your boot loader doesn't support packet mode p= roperly, I'd strongly urge you to use packet mode. >> >> Last time I checked, the TinyBIOS used in the Alix boards does not suppo= rt packet mode properly (but according to http://blog.brixandersen.dk/?p=3D= 94 this was 3 years ago, I'll try to find time to retest against a newer ve= rsion of TinyBIOS). > > One of the 0.99x firmware updates fixed that I believe (sometime in 2007 = or 2008). =A0 (I use packet mode on Alix boards for what it's worth). > > > =A0- ask > Thanks for the answer, my problem was with the CF writer, it had one pin cuted and that caused a bad written nanobsd image and not boot.
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