[SOLVED] Can't boot with NanoBSD on a FabiaTech FX5622

bellera · Dec 18, 2009, 3:15 PM

Hello!

Does anybody know if this problem is solved?

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,17830.0.html

I would like to buy a FabiaTech FX5622 box …

Regards,

Josep Pujadas

cmb · Dec 14, 2009, 8:04 AM

I think I know what you're seeing, a few Intel boards have a hardware bug in the serial implementation that prevents booting if displaying the boot menu on a serial console. You can work around it by not displaying the boot menu on serial. Put the CF/hard drive into a functional pfSense system, hit 8 to get a command prompt, and run:

boot0cfg -v -B ad0

where ad0 is the CF/HD. Put it back into that system, and it should work fine. But you won't be able to switch between partitions 1 and 2 unless the BIOS has serial redirection that allows you to get that prompt.

bellera · Dec 16, 2009, 3:24 PM

Chris,

Thanks!

I understand you told me to rewrite the Boot Manager for non interactive booting:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=boot0cfg

However, I can't test now. People near me that they have these boxes said they are in production, using Embedded.

I encouraged them to make the test … in order to have upgrading available.

Regards,

Josep Pujadas

cmb · Dec 17, 2009, 1:01 AM

Nanobsd usually uses boot0sio, which displays the F1/F2 boot prompt on the serial console. That switches it to boot0, which shows that on VGA instead.

bellera · Dec 17, 2009, 9:39 AM

This means that after that NanoBSD will be VGA+keyboard ?

Tried to run the command on an ALIX box running NanoBSD … and got an error ...

boot0cfg: /dev/ad0: Class not found
boot0cfg: /dev/ad0: ioctl DIOCSMBR: Inappropriate ioctl for device

Rebooting…
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1 FreeBSD
2 FreeBSD

Boot: 1
/boot.config: -h
Consoles: serial port
BIOS drive C: is disk0
BIOS 640kB/261120kB available memory

FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
(sullrich@FreeBSD_7.2_pfSense_1.2.3_snaps.pfsense.org, Mon Dec 7
23:00:35 EST 2
009)
Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
/boot/kernel/kernel text=0x739788 data=0x13cf6c+0x51c80 /

Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]…
Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p5 #0: Mon Dec 7 23:21:27 EST 2009
sullrich@FreeBSD_7.2_pfSense_1.2.3_snaps.pfsense.org:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/pf
Sensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_wrap.7.i386
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS (498.05-MHz 586-class CPU)
Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x5a2 Stepping = 2
Features=0x88a93d <fpu,de,pse,tsc,msr,cx8,sep,pge,cmov,clflush,mmx>AMD Features=0xc0400000 <mmx+,3dnow!+,3dnow!>real memory = 268435456 (256 MB)
avail memory = 248639488 (237 MB)
pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum
wlan: mac acl policy registered
K6-family MTRR support enabled (2 registers)
ACPI Error (tbxfroot-0308): A valid RSDP was not found [20070320]
ACPI: Table initialisation failed: AE_NOT_FOUND
ACPI: Try disabling either ACPI or apic support.
cryptosoft0: <software crypto="">on motherboard
padlock0: No ACE support.
pcib0: <host to="" pci="" bridge="">pcibus 0 on motherboard
pci0: <pci bus="">on pcib0
Geode LX: PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.99h tinyBIOS V1.4a (C)1997-2007
pci0: <encrypt decrypt,="" entertainment="" crypto="">at device 1.2 (no driver
attached)

vr0: <via 10="" vt6105m="" rhine="" iii="" 100basetx="">port 0x1000-0x10ff mem
0xe0000000-0xe0
0000ff irq 10 at device 9.0 on pci0
vr0: Quirks: 0x2
vr0: Revision: 0x96
miibus0: <mii bus="">on vr0
ukphy0: <generic ieee="" 802.3u="" media="" interface="">PHY 1 on miibus0
ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
vr0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:b9:18:72:a4
vr0: [ITHREAD]
vr1: <via 10="" vt6105m="" rhine="" iii="" 100basetx="">port 0x1400-0x14ff mem
0xe0040000-0xe0
0400ff irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci0
vr1: Quirks: 0x2
vr1: Revision: 0x96
miibus1: <mii bus="">on vr1
ukphy1: <generic ieee="" 802.3u="" media="" interface="">PHY 1 on miibus1
ukphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
vr1: Ethernet address: 00:0d:b9:18:72:a5
vr1: [ITHREAD]
vr2: <via 10="" vt6105m="" rhine="" iii="" 100basetx="">port 0x1800-0x18ff mem
0xe0080000-0xe0
0800ff irq 15 at device 11.0 on pci0
vr2: Quirks: 0x2
vr2: Revision: 0x96
miibus2: <mii bus="">on vr2
ukphy2: <generic ieee="" 802.3u="" media="" interface="">PHY 1 on miibus2
ukphy2: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
vr2: Ethernet address: 00:0d:b9:18:72:a6
vr2: [ITHREAD]
isab0: <pci-isa bridge="">port
0x6000-0x6007,0x6100-0x61ff,0x6200-0x623f,0x9d00-0x
9d7f,0x9c00-0x9c3f at device 15.0 on pci0
isa0: <isa bus="">on isab0
atapci0: <amd cs5536="" udma100="" controller="">port
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x37
6,0xff00-0xff0f at device 15.2 on pci0
ata0: <ata 0="" channel="">on atapci0
ata0: [ITHREAD]
ata1: <ata 1="" channel="">on atapci0
ata1: [ITHREAD]
ohci0: <ohci (generic)="" usb="" controller="">mem 0xefffe000-0xefffefff irq 12
at devic
e 15.4 on pci0
ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
ohci0: [ITHREAD]
usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb0: <ohci (generic)="" usb="" controller="">on ohci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: <amd 1="" 9="" ohci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usb0
uhub0: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
ehci0: <amd cs5536="" (geode)="" usb="" 2.0="" controller="">mem 0xefffd000-0xefffdfff
irq 12
at device 15.5 on pci0
ehci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
ehci0: [ITHREAD]
usb1: EHCI version 1.0
usb1: companion controller, 4 ports each: usb0
usb1: <amd cs5536="" (geode)="" usb="" 2.0="" controller="">on ehci0
usb1: USB revision 2.0
uhub1: <amd 1="" 9="" ehci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usb1
uhub1: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
cpu0 on motherboard
orm0: <isa option="" rom="">at iomem 0xe0000-0xea7ff pnpid ORM0000 on isa0
ppc0: parallel port not found.
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A, console
sio0: [FILTER]
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
sio1: [FILTER]
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 498054755 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
ad0: 983MB <cf card="" ver1.27="">at ata0-master PIO4
WARNING: Expected rawoffset 0, found 63
WARNING: Expected rawoffset 0, found 922383
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/pfsense0
Setting up embedded specific environment… done.

/ f
/ p _/ Sense
_/
__/

Welcome to pfSense 1.2.3-RELEASE...

Mounting filesystems... done.
Creating symlinks......done.
Launching the init system... done.
Initializing.................. done.
Starting device manager (devd)...done.
Loading configuration......done.
Updating configuration...done.
Cleaning backup cache...done.
glxsb0: <amd geode="" lx="" security="" block="" (aes-128-cbc,="" rng)="">mem
0xefff4000-0xefff7f
ff irq 9 at device 1.2 on pci0
Setting up extended sysctls...done.
Syncing user passwords...done.
Starting Secure Shell Services...done.
Setting timezone...done.
Setting up microcode and tx/rx ovffloading...r1: link state changed to DOWN
vr0: link state changed to DOWN
done.
Configuring LAN interface...done.
Configuring WAN interface...done.
Configuring OPT vinterfaces...rdone.
2: link state changed to DOWN
Configuring CARP interfaces...done.
Starting syslog...done.
Starting OpenNTP time client...done.
Configuring firewall......done.
Starting webConfigurator...done.
Starting DNS forwarder...done.
Starting FTP helpers...done.
Final filter pass......done.
Generating RRD graphs...done.
Starting CRON... done.
Executing rc.d items...
Starting /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*.sh...done.
appending output to nohup.out
Bootup complete

FreeBSD/i386 (pfSense.local) (console)

*** Welcome to pfSense 1.2.3-RELEASE-nanobsd on pfSense ***

LAN -> vr0 -> 192.168.10.27
WAN -> vr1 -> NONE(DHCP)

pfSense console setup

Logout (SSH only)

Assign Interfaces

Set LAN IP address

Reset webConfigurator password

Reset to factory defaults

Reboot system

Halt system

Ping host
Shell

PFtop

Filter Logs

Restart webConfigurator

pfSense Developer Shell

Upgrade from console

Enable Secure Shell (sshd)

Enter an option: 8

[1.2.3-RELEASE] [root@pfSense.local]/root(1): boot0cfg -v -B ad0
boot0cfg: /dev/ad0: Class not found
boot0cfg: /dev/ad0: ioctl DIOCSMBR: Inappropriate ioctl for device
[1.2.3-RELEASE] [root@pfSense.local]/root(2):</amd></cf></isa></amd></amd></amd></amd></ohci></ohci></ata></ata></amd></isa></pci-isa></generic></mii></via></generic></mii></via></generic></mii></via></encrypt></pci></host></software></mmx+,3dnow!+,3dnow!></fpu,de,pse,tsc,msr,cx8,sep,pge,cmov,clflush,mmx>

bellera · Dec 17, 2009, 7:38 PM

I found

http://arkiv.netbsd.se/?ml=freebsd-stable&a=2008-11&t=9160032

where it says that

sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16

is needed before attempting boot0cfg

bellera · Dec 18, 2009, 3:14 PM

Finally, it worked!

1. Modify the CF on a running box:

sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16
boot0cfg -v -B ad0

2. Go with the modified CF to FX5622

Booting … serial ...

Limitation: No possible to boot from the second slice, as you said.

Regards,

Josep Pujadas

christian_apr · Feb 15, 2010, 9:47 AM

Hi,

now we have this problem, does it mean that we need another pfsense box, boot from the nano distro, and then modify it with

sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16
boot0cfg -v -B ad0

and finally put it in the fabiatech FX5622.

are this steps correct?

thanks

bellera · Feb 15, 2010, 1:04 PM

Yes, that's all!

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=boot0cfg

christian_apr · Feb 16, 2010, 7:28 AM

oooh :(

we only have our FX5622, we will try to boot from a multicard reader in a standard PC,

when I'll get it, I'll let you know.

Many thanks!