I found some additional information on the HP5630, which provides an answer to
why I am having difficulty.
It seems the 5630 has an unused SATA port(s) on the motherboard, even missing
any connector, but Linux sees the controller as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. The IDE
flash is seen as /dev/sdc, and a successful write to /dev/sdc with dd can be
done.
I believe someone in the UK has added SATA connections to attach a HD or SSD,
which is how I discovered what I believe is the issue. Not something I want to
attempt!
Once an attempt to boot from the flash drive starts ( there appears to be no
option in the bios to specify where to boot other than USB,flash or network )
Runnix boots, and finds the AstLinux file, but somewhere in the boot process
gets lost and hangs. I assume it is looking for /dev/sda instead of continuing
to read from /dev/sdc
So, the question is, without a custom build, is there any modification that
could be done to overcome this?
Or should the 5630 just be considered not usable with AstLinux, and I can
reclaim the memory, flash and power supply and send the rest to recycle?
John Novack
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