Hardware

Hi,
just loaded the 1.8.1 Software to the new APU Board from pcengines.

http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm
Jakob

Hi, I have been trying to get 1.8.1 running on my APU but so far it keeps hanging at the Grub loader? Did you have to upgrade your bios? Please share what you had to do?

Thank you!

: )

Hi, I have been trying to get 1.8.1 running on my APU but so far it keeps hanging at the Grub loader? Did you have to upgrade your bios? Please share what you had to do?

Thank you!

: )

I got 1.8.1 up & running on my APU1C by using physdiskwrite 0.5.3 to write to an 8GB SDHC.  No other cards installed.  Still on the pre-April 1st BIOS without any apparent problems.  23 days uptime at present.  I asked PC Engines if they had a changelog for the new BIOS, but they replied that they didn't have one yet.

Cheers,  Al.

Hmm, interesting.

What kind of throughput do you get from that APU board with monowall?

   /Jonas...

Well, I've only got a 30 Mbit cable connection here and it handles that without breaking a sweat.  Getting full 30 Mb/sec downloads at 6-8% CPU load.  Have seen a few other posts claiming several hundred Mbit throughput on the APU.  I believe it.

Al.

Hi

@Jakob: How did you do this? Everytime i try, the APU "Hangs" at Boot with the Message:

Code:

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Press F12 for boot menu.

Searching bootorder for: HALT
drive 0x000f2520: PCHS=0/0/0 translation=lba LCHS=945/128/63 s=7626752
Space available for UMB: c0000-ee800, f0000-f2520
Returned 245760 bytes of ZoneHigh
e820 map has 7 items:
  0: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 = 1 RAM
  1: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 = 2 RESERVED
  2: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 = 2 RESERVED
  3: 0000000000100000 - 00000000df14c000 = 1 RAM
  4: 00000000df14c000 - 00000000e0000000 = 2 RESERVED
  5: 00000000f8000000 - 00000000f9000000 = 2 RESERVED
  6: 0000000100000000 - 000000011f000000 = 1 RAM
enter handle_19:
  NULL
Booting from Hard Disk...
Booting from 0000:7c00
/
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and if i try the m0n0wall Image Version 1.3.4 it is booting but hangs afterwards with following message:

Code:

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*******************************************************************************
* FATAL ERROR                                                                 *
* The device that contains the configuration file (config.xml) could not be   *
* found. m0n0wall cannot continue booting.                                    *
*******************************************************************************

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Would you give me a Hand?

Are you using this image?

generic-pc-1.8.1.img

http://m0n0.ch/wall/download.php?file=generic-pc-1.8.1.img

No, i've tried

Code:

generic-pc-serial-1.8.1.img

Will try

Code:

generic-pc-1.8.1.img

and give feedback.

Bingo, that's the solution. But why? 

I had the same issue, any ideas why the -serial image does not work?

Could it be because its the APU supports SD cards (Which I'm using) not Compact Flash so we are suppose to be using the generic-pc image in the first place?

generic-pc-1.8.1.img worked for me also