Hi Giovanni,
On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 11:18:31AM +0200, giova...@paclan.it wrote:
| On 4/29/23 21:42, Paul de Weerd wrote:
| > The 4GB CF card in an old ALIX machine failed. I swapped the card
| > with a new (32GB) one and reinstalled, but now during boot I get:
| >
| Afaik old Soekris/Alix machines cannot boot from CF bigger then $something.
| I had a similar issue with my Net-5501.
Thanks for your reply! I tried the 32GB CF on my net5501-70 as well
and that didn't even POST, so that hardware really is stuck with
smaller storage (probably <8GB, my hunch is that this is somehow
related to LBA48).
But the ALIX definitely works. After some off-list discussion and
suggestions, I installed 6.6 and that worked just fine. Then I could
upgrade that with sysupgrade(8) (thank you, sysupgrade authors!) to
6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 (which didn't work when I tried to
install it), 7.3 (same) and then the latest snapshot. I now have:
[weerd@twix] $ sysctl kern.version hw.model
kern.version=OpenBSD 7.3-current (GENERIC) #692: Sun Apr 30 17:36:48 MDT 2023
dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
hw.model=Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS ("AuthenticAMD" 586-class)
And it's working very well. I do note that 6.6 still defaulted to
FFS1 for /, so that may have something to do with it. There were also
some commits to the i386 biosboot (see
http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/sys/arch/i386/stand/biosboot/biosboot.S
for more details) that may be related. I have another ALIX and a
spare 32G CF card, so I'll play around a bit more with those, to see
if I can find some more details. If anyone has suggestions on things
to try, I'm eager to hear them!
In summary - the ALIX *DOES* work with 'largish' (for the hardware
vintage) storage - it just takes some effort.
Paul
| > --- booting from local storage ---------------------------------------
| > PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.99
| > 640 KB Base Memory
| > 261120 KB Extended Memory
| >
| > 01F0 Master 848A SDCFXS-032G
| > Phys C/H/S 62041/16/63 Log C/H/S 3892/255/63 LBA
| >
| > Using drive 0, partition 3;
| > No O/S
| > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
| >
| > When I use the boot loader from TFTP I can boot from disk just fine:
| >
| > --- booting from network ---------------------------------------------
| > PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.99
| > 640 KB Base Memory
| > 261120 KB Extended Memory
| >
| > 01F0 Master 848A SDCFXS-032G
| > Phys C/H/S 62041/16/63 Log C/H/S 3892/255/63 LBA
| >
| > Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082)
| > Copyright (C) 1997,1998,1999 Intel Corporation
| > VIA Rhine III Management Adapter v2.43 (2005/12/15)
| >
| > CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 0D B9 14 6C 58
| > CLIENT IP: 192.168.34.248 MASK: 255.255.255.0 DHCP IP: 192.168.34.1
| > GATEWAY IP: 192.168.34.1
| > probing: pc0 com0 pxe![2.1] mem[640K 255M a20=on]
| > disk: hd0
| > net: mac 00:0d:b9:14:6c:58, ip 192.168.34.248, server 192.168.34.2
| > > > OpenBSD/i386 PXEBOOT 3.45
| > open(tftp:/etc/boot.conf): Operation not permitted
| > boot> stty com0 38400
| > boot> set tty com0
| > switching console to com0
| > > > OpenBSD/i386 PXEBOOT 3.45
| > boot> boot hd0a:/bsd
| > booting hd0a:/bsd: 10615315+2581508+204808+0+1134592
[740729+107+609424+659874]=0xfc9e58
| > entry point at 0x201000
| >
| > [ using 2010712 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) 1995-2023 OpenBSD. All rights reserved.
https://www.OpenBSD.org
| >
| > OpenBSD 7.3-current (GENERIC) #691: Fri Apr 28 15:28:14 MDT 2023
| > dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
| > RTC BIOS diagnostic error 80<clock_battery>
| > real mem = 267931648 (255MB)
| > avail mem = 245862400 (234MB)
| > random: good seed from bootblocks
| > mpath0 at root
| > scsibus0 at mpath0: 256 targets
| > mainbus0 at root
| > bios0 at mainbus0: date 12/10/07, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfceb2
| > pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x10000
| > pcibios0: pcibios_get_intr_routing - function not supported
| > pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing information unavailable.
| > pcibios0: PCI bus #0 is the last bus
| > bios0: ROM list: 0xe0000/0xa800
| > cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor)
| > cpu0: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS ("AuthenticAMD" 586-class)
499 MHz, 05-0a-02
| > cpu0: FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,CX8,SEP,PGE,CMOV,CFLUSH,MMX,MMXX,3DNOW2,3DNOW
| > mtrr: K6-family MTRR support (2 registers)
| > pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
| > pchb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "AMD Geode LX" rev 0x33
| > glxsb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 2 "AMD Geode LX Crypto" rev 0x00: RNG AES
| > vr0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 "VIA VT6105M RhineIII" rev 0x96: irq 10,
address 00:0d:b9:14:6c:58
| > ukphy0 at vr0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 3: OUI
0x004063, model 0x0034
| > vr1 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "VIA VT6105M RhineIII" rev 0x96: irq 11,
address 00:0d:b9:14:6c:59
| > ukphy1 at vr1 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 3: OUI
0x004063, model 0x0034
| > vr2 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "VIA VT6105M RhineIII" rev 0x96: irq 12,
address 00:0d:b9:14:6c:5a
| > ukphy2 at vr2 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 3: OUI
0x004063, model 0x0034
| > glxpcib0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "AMD CS5536 ISA" rev 0x03: rev 3, 32-bit
3579545Hz timer, watchdog, gpio, i2c
| > gpio0 at glxpcib0: 32 pins
| > iic0 at glxpcib0
| > maxtmp0 at iic0 addr 0x4c: lm86
| > pciide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 2 "AMD CS5536 IDE" rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0
wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility
| > wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <SDCFXS-032G>
| > wd0: 1-sector PIO, LBA48, 30535MB, 62537328 sectors
| > wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4
| > pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled)
| > ohci0 at pci0 dev 15 function 4 "AMD CS5536 USB" rev 0x02: irq 15, version
1.0, legacy support
| > ehci0 at pci0 dev 15 function 5 "AMD CS5536 USB" rev 0x02: irq 15
| > usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
| > uhub0 at usb0 configuration 1 interface 0 "AMD EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00
addr 1
| > isa0 at glxpcib0
| > isadma0 at isa0
| > com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
| > com0: console
| > pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
| > spkr0 at pcppi0
| > npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16
| > usb1 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
| > uhub1 at usb1 configuration 1 interface 0 "AMD OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00
addr 1
| > nvram: invalid checksum
| > vscsi0 at root
| > scsibus1 at vscsi0: 256 targets
| > softraid0 at root
| > scsibus2 at softraid0: 256 targets
| > root on wd0a (ccd1db21646168f7.a) swap on wd0b dump on wd0b
| > clock: unknown CMOS layout
| > WARNING: bad clock chip time
| > WARNING: CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
| > Automatic boot in progress: starting file system checks.
| > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
| >
| > If I understand correctly, the 'No O/S' bit comes from the MBR
| > (/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/stand/mbr/mbr.S), it indicates it can't find
| > the bootloader on disk, so I re-ran installboot which seemed to work
| > fine:
| >
| > --- installboot -v wd0 -----------------------------------------------
| > Using / as root
| > installing bootstrap on /dev/rwd0c
| > using first-stage /usr/mdec/biosboot, second-stage /usr/mdec/boot
| > copying /usr/mdec/boot to //boot
| > looking for superblock at 65536
| > found valid ffs2 superblock
| > //boot is 6 blocks x 16384 bytes
| > fs block shift 2; part offset 64; inode block 96, offset 1904
| > expecting 64-bit fs blocks (incr 4)
| > master boot record (MBR) at sector 0
| > partition 3: type 0xA6 offset 64 size 62537264
| > /usr/mdec/biosboot will be written at sector 64
| > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
| >
| > But the result is the same: the machine doesn't boot (unexpectedly -
| > the installer did run installboot while installing the system).
| >
| > Trying to reproduce in an i386 vmm VM, everything worked fine there,
| > so I'm suspecting it's something to do with the hardware, perhaps CHS
| > vs LBA? Anybody an idea what this could be?
| >
| > Paul
| >
|
|
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