[j-nsp] re333 not booting install media

[Jonas Frey]

Chris,

i know that the RE333 is pretty much hard to upgrade. E.g. it wont
handle large harddisks (40+gb).
I am not sure if it handles that much type of flash.

You can access the bios only via the PS2 ports of the RE. These are
"hidden" behind the front plate. Its not easy to get access to the PS2
ports while still beeing able to boot the RE. You cannot access the bios
via serial console since the bsd kernel handles the serial input when
the boot loader is booted. Before that the RE takes no input besides the
PS2.

Regards,
Jonas Frey

On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 19:49, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
> I replaced a 96MB flash in an RE333 with a 1gb sandisk flash.  My next
> step is to boot an install media and wipe the hard disk and flash.  
> Unfortunately, the RE333 is not booting the install media.  It doesn't
> even show up in dmesg.  And when I hit 'del' to get into the BIOS, nothing
> happens, no matter how many different emulators and terminal types I try.
> 
> The same install media works fine in any other RE333!
> 
> I wonder if the hard disk controller that the flash is plugged into isn't
> just shut off for some reason?  Is there any way to get into the bios or
> otherwise influence those settings on an RE333?   It seems like its easy
> to get into the BIOS of an RE233, but this one won't respond to pressing DEL or
> much else.
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