RE: 5.2.1 on EPIA M1000 board

From: Rob MacGregor (freebsd.macgregor_at_blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 06/01/04

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Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 22:45:27 +0100

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org
    > [mailto:owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robert Downes
    >
    > I posted this to freebsd-questions, and someone replied with
    > something
    > along the lines of 'me too' - they say that they can run 5.2.1 on a
    > Compact Flash card, but will get wild problems too if they attempt to
    > boot it from any hard disk.

    Actually, that would have been me at comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc :)

    I see the same problem with 5.2 onwards (I haven't tried older parts of
    the 5.x series). The board in question is a Via Eden board
    (http://www.lex.com.tw:8080/product/CV860A.htm).

    If build a disk on another system and plug it in I get a series of CRC
    errors until the boot fails. If I plug that disk back into the other
    system it works fine. If I install onto a CF card (using the boards
    built in CF-IDE adapter) it works fine, but fails horribly with CRC
    errors if I try to access the disk.

    I get the same problems with a good cable from another system. It makes
    no difference with or without ACPI and happens regardless of the
    UDMA/PIO mode selected in the BIOS.

    As the system in question is currently doing nothing I'm happy to try
    just about anything in tracking this down. Keeping in mind that you
    can't read/write the hard disk :) 

    -- 
 Rob | Oh my God! They killed init! You bastards! 
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