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Jürgen Kemmler

10/04/2008 9:49 AM

post14468

Boot fails on VIA EPIA M10000 mini itx Board

Hi,
this board contains a Via C3 'Nehemia' 1GHz cpu, VT8235 South Bridge and CLE266 North Bridge . Both of these support 
chips together are referred to as the VIA Apollo CLE266 chipset, 500MB ram, 4GB Compact-Flash card as ssd, a dvd-rw 
drive. Windows and Linux are running well. The installation itself had worked, but the boot fails. 
It displays Hit Esc for .altboot ................................................................S
then it hangs.
What can I do?
Thank you for your help.
regards
Jürgen

Yuriy Synytskyy

10/06/2008 11:17 AM

post14519

Re: Boot fails on VIA EPIA M10000 mini itx Board

Hello Jürgen,
“S” in this case means “No OS signature was found”.
Try .altboot by pressing ESC while the dots are printed.

.boot uses DMA for accessing the EIDE controller, while .altboot doesn't.
See also http://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/6.3.2/neutrino/user_guide/starting.html#NtoImage  
Regards,
Yuriy

Jürgen Kemmler

10/06/2008 4:10 PM

post14544

Re: Boot fails on VIA EPIA M10000 mini itx Board

Hello! Thank you for ansering!
Unfortunaly it doesn't work. The ESC-Key is not recognized???
But you are right. The CF-Card interface works only in PIO-Mode
Do you have any other idea?
Regards
Jürgen

Yuriy Synytskyy

10/06/2008 4:43 PM

post14548

Re: Boot fails on VIA EPIA M10000 mini itx Board

Hello Jürgen,
Boot from the installation CD and check whether the CF-Card is somehow recognized (/dev/hd*, /dev/hd?t?? created or 
mounted).
Regards,
Yuriy

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