Hello, > Boudewijn Ector wrote: >> Boudewijn Ector wrote: >>>> The ";" at the end here means that the WRAP BIOS said it could not do >>>> LBA reads, so biosboot fell back to CHS reads. >>>> >>>> >>>>> No O/S >>>>> >>>> >>>> And since you installed on a different machine, the geometry was >>>> almost certainly different, so the operating system wouldnt be at >>>> the same place (cylinder/head/sector), hence it's not found. >>>> >>>> No idea how you can fix it, though. >>>> >>>> Tom >>>> >>> >>> Thanks anyway, it's a clue at least. >>> Maybe some of the gurus here know it? >>> >> Okay, I assume I need to set LBA in bios, and change the CHS settings of >> the microdrive. >> This can be done using fdisk , but how to determine the correct values? >> >> At second, someone attended me on the fact that I'm creating the image >> using a USB-based cardreader(thus scsi like) and running it as an IDE
>> device (at Linux , hda) on my board. >> different kind of bootsection? Can someone confirm this? > > google for WRAP, flashboot, and PXE. > > the 'easiest' way to install is to use the WRAP's own bios & a bsd.rd to > get enough stuff up & running to download the .gz image over FTP & write > directly onto the card. > > i've done this on a soekris easily, wrap should be similar. > > i'll look for some link-rotted urls later & if i can find them, email > offlist > > a+ > scorch it's not easy because of a bios bug. You first have to update the bios. I wrote a small howto in a forum thread: http://www.bsdforen.de/archive/index.php/t-15259.html It's german, let me know if you need an english translation. For the geometry question: You missed my replay I wrote yesterday? Regards Hagen Volpers
