Have you checked the file size of root.lrp?
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Mike Sensney
> Sent: 11 July 2001 05:11
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] Re: How to make CF disk bootable
>
>
> Hokay...The normal sequence for the Syslinux boot process is:
>
> 1) It loads itself into memory.
> 2) It reads its config file.
> 3) It loads root.lrp which is the initrd for LEAF/LRP.
> 4) It loads the kernel.
> 5) It sets some parameters for the kernel.
> 6) It passes control to the kernel.
>
> The boot process is dying in step 3. Therefore Linux is not
> your problem
> because the kernel never gets loaded let alone actually start
> executing.
> Syslinux is having problems reading the CF disk.
>
> I keep coming back to CHS parameters as being your problem.
> Something is
> wrong there. Try some more CHS values.
>
> There may be a 32MB barrier problem. Try a much smaller drive size.
>
> I'd probably try making the CF disk boot DOS. Once I got that
> figured out
> the rest should fall into place.
>
> At 07:48 PM 07/10/2001 -0700, Billy Jacobs wrote
>
> >The kernel image itself is not corrupt. Filesizez match, as well as
> >diffs between kernels. I placed the IDE kernel onto the LRP
> floppy that
> >I have, and it booted fine, including seeing the IDE device:
> > hda: Hitachi CVM1.1.1, 30MB w/1kB Cache, CHS=736/5/17
> > <snip>
> > Partition check:
> > hda: hda1
> >
> >I can mount the device w/msdos filesystem without a problem.
> I copied
> >everything from the floppy over to /dev/hda1. When I reboot after
> >copying the files over, it starts loading root.lrp, then
> craps out and
> >reboots:
> > Loading root.lrp...
> >When it comes up next time, it complains about an Invalid of corrupt
> >kernel. From then on, it will give the same error upon reboot.
> >
> >The strange thing is that it only starts loading root.lrp
> after I copy
> >the files back over to the CF disk. AND, when it does start loading
> >root.lrp, it always stops at 3 dots.
> >
> >Just to rule out a possible problem with syslinux, I used GRUB, and
> >when trying to boot off Partition 0, it exhibits the same problem
> >(therefore, not a problem with syslinux).
> >
> >In my syslinux.cfg file, I have set both boot and PKGPATH to
> /dev/hda1.
> >
> >I mentioned before that I have to specify the drive type in
> my BIOS by
> >sectors, heads, cylinders, etc. Since a CF disk doesn't
> have any such
> >parts, what is the best setting to use? I know by
> specifying different
> >values, it changes whether or not the BIOS can see the boot sector of
> >the CF.
> >
> >This is a strange one...any help would be appreciated.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Billy
>
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