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RouterOS freezes on Soekris net4521

Wed May 16, 2007 12:34 am

Hello,

No matter what RouterOS version I use or what Soekris Bios I use on the net 4521, the boot process always freezes here.

comBIOS ver. 1.26a  20040819  Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Soekris Engineering. 

0064 Mbyte Memory                        CPU 80486 133 Mhz

Pri Mas  SAMSUNG CF/ATA                  LBA 248-16-32  63 Mbyte

Slot   Vend Dev  ClassRev Cmd  Stat CL LT HT  Base1    Base2   Int
-------------------------------------------------------------------
0:00:0 1022 3000 06000000 0006 2280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000
0:17:0 104C AC51 06070000 0107 0210 10 3F 82 A0000000 020000A0 10
0:17:1 104C AC51 06070000 0107 0210 10 3F 82 A0001000 020000A0 10
0:18:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E101 A0002000 11
0:19:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E201 A0003000 05

10 Seconds to automatic boot.   Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor.

comBIOS Monitor.   Press ? for help.

> boot 80

SYSLINUX 2.08 2003-12-12  Copyright (C) 1994-2003 H. Peter Anvin
Loading linux....................
Loading initrd.rgz.......
Ready.

I have tried every version of router OS I can find including
routeros-x86-3.0beta7.npk
&
routeros-x86-2.9.43.npk

I've tried all these bios from Soekris
b4501x_126a.bin
b4501_126a.bin
b4501_127.bin
b4501_128.bin
b4501_130.bin

Netinstall works for installing to a PCMCIA CF Card
and PXE boot over Ethernet works

The same thing happens with or without the CF Card installed.

It also seems that after attempting to boot from the CF Card it wipes out or corrupts the CF Card Drive and I have to reinstall the OS on the CF card again for anything to be there.

Winbox will not connect to it either.

Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.

Ben
 
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Re: RouterOS freezes on Soekris net4521

Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:50 am

Try this, instead of Boot 80 just remove power from the board then power it up again. I've had similiar problems and found power cycling at this point solved the issue. I hope this helps
 
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Re: RouterOS freezes on Soekris net4521

Thu Jun 07, 2007 6:06 am

This might be your flash card - wait at least 3 full minutes to see if it will boot. A lot of the new CF cards have some sort of DMA issue which causes them to hang for 2-3 minutes. Worth a shot anyway as I know MT works on the net4521 as we use one all of the time for demos.

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