i386/134106: [boot] Dell Dimension XPS R400 fail to boot on CF IDE

[Tortise]

Hi REmko

As best I can tell the A13 BIOS was the latest written for that model, see
http://support.ap.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?os=WNT5&osl=EN&catid=1&impid=-1&servicetag=SZ9XX&SystemID=DIM_PNT_PII_XPS_R___&hidos=WW1&hidlang=en&TabIndex=

>From the ftp link given below the same (latest) file exists:

  7/5/2001  1:07 PM       558688 XPSR_A13.EXE

As it was the latest it may be the problem is still in the latest - or it may be arising from outside the BIOS - which is why I made 
the post.

Kind regards
David Hingston


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Remko Lodder" <remko at elvandar.org>
To: "Tortise" <tortise at paradise.net.nz>
Cc: <linimon at freebsd.org>; <freebsd-i386 at freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 7:20 AM
Subject: Re: i386/134106: [boot] Dell Dimension XPS R400 fail to boot on CF IDE



Hello,

What you are describing might exactly be the problem. The Dell Bios might
have been altered a bit or something. There are newer versions for the
BIOS available as I saw on: http://ftp.us.dell.com/bios/

Would you be so kind to see if there is a newer version for your model,
and whether flashing it to that bios might resolve the problem? Ofcourse
read the instructions for flasing carefully!

Cheers,
REmko


On Sat, June 20, 2009 5:52 am, Tortise wrote:
> The failure occurs very early on, following detecting the IDE media discs
> the screen clears and the next message is "Read error"
> appears....
> It has been suggested to me the problem might be from a proprietary BIOS
> however that was not very convincing as this is a
> Dell...BIOS A13.
> If I can help any more do let me know.
> Kind regards
> David Hingston
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <linimon at FreeBSD.org>
> To: <tortise at paradise.net.nz>; <linimon at FreeBSD.org>;
> <freebsd-i386 at FreeBSD.org>
> Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 11:25 AM
> Subject: Re: i386/134106: [boot] Dell Dimension XPS R400 fail to boot on
> CF IDE
>
>
> Synopsis: [boot] Dell Dimension XPS R400 fail to boot on CF IDE
>
> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> State-Changed-By: linimon
> State-Changed-When: Fri Jun 19 23:24:31 UTC 2009
> State-Changed-Why:
> We need more information about exactly how it fails (log messages, e.g.)
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=134106
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