On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 12:50 -0600, Phil Meyer wrote: > Tod Merley wrote: > > On 9/10/06, Phil Meyer <pmeyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> For temperature, silence, and other conditions, a Compact Flash card is > >> often used with mini-ATX boards to boot the OS and run the apps from. > >> > >> On these types of motherboards, the CF card shows up as /dev/hdc > >> (typically). > >> > >> A recent purchase of CF cards however, have been problematic. > >> Kingston elite pro 2GB 50X CF/2GB-S > >> > >> These cards are visible and usable to a desktop system running FC5. No > >> problem there. Partitioning, mkfs, and data transfers all were normal > >> on the desktop box using a USB based card reader. > >> > >> However, when placed in a system as /dev/hdc and booted, the system > >> hangs when it first tries to read the partition table from the drive. > >> Normal operation prints an indented line with the partitions it finds > >> just after it prints the drive parameters. ie: > >> hdc: hdc1, hdc2, hdc3 > >> > >> With these cards, we get: > >> hdc: > >> > >> And the system is hard hung. This has been tried with the original and > >> respin boot CDs. > >> > >> The fly in the ointment? KNOPPIX 2.6 kernels boot just fine. And no, > >> this project cannot easily migrate to KNOPPIX. :) > >> > >> What am I missing? Other CF cards this size have worked in the past. > >> An old working CF card was booted in this system just to make sure that > >> the problem is with the new cards. > >> > >> Stumped ... > >> > >> -- > >> fedora-list mailing list > >> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > >> > > > > Hi Phil Meyer! > > > > My first guess is that you are not forming the MBR of the CF card in > > any way that will make it a boot device. > > > > Good Hunting! > > > > Tod > > > Inserted CF onto a desktop system, mounted first partition, copied over > /boot to it, ran grub-install on it. > > Mounted CF card into small mini-ITX server, boot from CF get GRUB disk > error. Ok MBR is set. Boot from FC5 boot CD, won't get passed the IDE > checks. :( > Ok, the MBR and grub are loaded. That is a first step. Is the partition table consistent with Linux? I have seen a lot of drives partitioned by Windows that are not on the cylinder boundaries when booted with Linux. Maybe that card has the same problem.
