I am actually trying to do the same thing, taking an Eiger disk and
make it bootable off a 32MB CF disk. I have followed the directions
from Charles's IDE HD HOWTO, however, I am getting "Invalid or corrupt
kernel image", immediately after it displays syslinux.dpy.
Under DOS, I fdisk'ed, formatted, copied the LRP files, then syslinuxed
the C: drive. I am using syslinux 1.42 on my dos diskette (which is
the same version as on my lrp diskette). I am have tried using
syslinux with and without the -s switch. I have downloaded his
2.2.16-1-LRP-386-noFPU-IDE-zImage kernel multiple times and transferred
it to the CF disk, all to no avail. When booting from my dos diskette
(win98, ugh), i can view the C: drive and it looks correct (made
changes to syslinux.cfg to point boot and PKGPATH to /dev/hda1). I
have the CF set as the primary master.
The only thing that I can think of, which I dont think is the cause, is
the fact that its a really old BIOS, where there is no "auto" sense of
the IDE drive. You need to either choose from a preset HD
configuration (heads, cylinders, etC), or manually set your own values.
I experimented with all the ballpark 32MB IDE settings, and found one,
which at least reads the boot sector of the CF and displays the
syslinux.dpy...could it be that I am using an incorrect IDE settings?
Like I said, in DOS I can still do a dir on c:
Any ideas? Help would be appreciated...feel like I am so
close...thanks.
Billy
--- Chris Carbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Linux has all the tools needed (not sure about marking the partition
> bootable though).
>
> My personal preference on this sort of thing is a DOS boot disk
> (created from Win9x).
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Ricardo Kleemann wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:20:29 -0700 (PDT)
> > To: Chris Carbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > From: Ricardo Kleemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: [LRP] How to make CF disk bootable
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Can this be done from linux (rather than windows?)
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Chris Carbaugh wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > First you need to partition/format the CF just like any other
> > drive.
> > > You didn't say what size CF you're using, but I have had problems
> > with
> > > Syslinux booting from a partition larger than 32MB.
> > >
> > > Once you have your FAT partition created (and set bootable), just
> > copy
> > > the contents of your floppy to the CF card (should be c: under
> > DOS).
> > > Next "syslinux c:". (In my experience, setting up syslinux works
> > best
> > > from DOS.)
> > >
> > > Good luck,
> > > Chris
> > >
> > > On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Ricardo Kleemann wrote:
> > > > Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 12:04:49 -0700 (PDT)
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > From: Ricardo Kleemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Subject: [LRP] How to make CF disk bootable
> > > >
> > > > Hi everyone,
> > > >
> > > > I'm using the PC Engines CF - IDE adapter. The CF disk is
> > properly
> > > > recognized as a small IDE disk.
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to figure out how to make it bootable. I thought
> maybe
> > > > just
> > > > doing a dd from a working LRP floppy would work, but I was
> > mistaken.
> > > >
> > > > So I have a working LRP floppy with my configured system, and I
> > want
> > > > to
> > > > transfer that into the CF disk and make that bootable.
> > > >
> > > > I tried to find something in the hard disk howto but didnt see
> > > > anything
> > > > relevant. I don't think I need any special drivers, the CF disk
> > is
> > > > seen as
> > > > a regular hard disk.
> > > >
> > > > I'm currently using Eigerstein2Beta off a floppy only. What do
> I
> > need
> > > > to
> > > > do now?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Ricardo
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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