> > Hi, > > Trying to get a minimal install of debian to boot here. > The installation goes fine, partitioning and so on goes fine. > However, trying to boot yields some problems. > > My setup is a ASUS P4P800-VM motherboard, 512MB ram and a CF2IDE adapter. > (CF and IDE is pin compatible, so no drivers are required) When tryint to > boot directly off of the Microdrive, it halts. It's like it doesn't get > detected, yet the bios detects the card correctly. All I get is "insert > correct medium and press any key" so something goes very wrong. Am I > missing something here? > > I can boot fine if I boot off of CDROM and set root=/dev/hda which is the > Microdrive. So why doesn't it work to boot directly from the CF drive, and > more importantly, how can I search for errors?
I was hoping someone might have a pointer or something? What causes the boot process to not find the boot sectors given, since that apparently is the only part it has problems with - I can boot off of another device and then use the Microdrive as root, so it works perfectly OK. Any ideas? //Andreas -- CES 1984 - "The Lorraine's graphics are a whole step ahead of any personal computer now on the market. This computer is potentially powerful enough to make an IBM-PC look like a four-function calculator." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
