On Thursday 20 December 2001 16:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I have a compact flash card on /dev/hdc (ide)  which
> I need to create an ext2 file system on and make it
> bootable.  

You bought one of those cheap refurb Compaq Ipaq IA's
too?  : >

> But on the system on which it boots, it will
> be /dev/hda.   I've failed miserably with lilo.

Lilo sucks.

> There seem to be some kind of disk geometry
> problem (???).
> I can make FAT12 boot disk on the flash with no problem.

For a small sized FS FAT or Minix will waste less space, then
ext2.

> My question is, will this be a much easier task using grub?

Grub should work much better for you but I've yet to use it on
CF. (When I get my CF adapter in I'll be trying it.)

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