M0rn guys!

Got my Peg2 up now (im typing this on it) but for some reason it wont find or boot from my HD before i have booted from the CD once! this happen everytime i turn it on/off! am i missing something?.

Hi 4Play,

Did you update the openfirmware as described on www.bplan-gmbh.de?

Cheers,
Ron

Yes i put the update on my boot partition and ran it from OF and still nothing.

are you useing "boot hd boot.img ramdebug"? If you are I had the same issue and had to change to using the boot instructions in the readme file on the root of the cd. This fixed my issue.

Yes i am Hmm ill give it a try!

didnt work either :(.

Yep, I have this issue too - apparently others have had it (see the
Pegasos II Problems thread).

You don't need to boot from CD as a workaround though - just use the
reset button once after switching on, to soft reset before attempting
a boot. Make sure the OpenFirmware has run through once first, before
resetting.

I would really like a permanent fix for this too, if anyone has one..?

Otherwise, I suppose we'll have to wait for the next firmware update
:-(

@4pLaY
Try 'boot hd:0 boot.img' , that's what works on my peg2.

Tried that also and didnt work :( guess ill have to wait for a fix from Genesi.

@4pLaY

What type of hard drive are you using ?

The same IDE drive i used in my Peg1 with the same setup (yes i did copy the boot.img file from the 1.4.1CD)

@ 4pLaY

Are you using an 80 conductor ATA133 ide cable?

Im using the right thing =) i use everything i used that worked fine on my Peg1 so i dont know why its borked.

@4pLaY

What is the maker of the hard drive and size?

Its a IBM deskstar! the drive is 41gigs.

@4pLaY

Sorry, I don't have any experince with IBM drives.

The IDE detection code is failing to detect your hard drive at power on/hard reset. I had the same problem on my Peg I with later (beta) version of the firmware and an IBM Deskstar 75GXP drive...if I were you, I'd report it as a bug to the powers that be.

Steve