With me, the start sector is 2 too! And works fine, but for work i have to put the partition with FAT < 32mb And put CHS instead of LBA in BIOS!
=) Samuel Abreu [EMAIL PROTECTED] >I too am trying to boot off a CF card in an IDE >adapters. My problems are happening much earlier. My >system will not even boot. I suspect it has to do the >with the format on CF card. Unfortunetly I do not have >a real unix envirnoment just a simulated Red Hat 7.2 >using VMWare. I am accessing my CF card under Red Hat >using a SanDisk SDDR-31 USB card reader. And used >syslinux 1.52 from linux. > >When I do "fdisk -l /dev/sdb" > >Disk /dev/sdb: 1 heads, 16 sectors, 980 cylinders >Units = cylinders of 16 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id >System >/dev/sdb1 * 2 980 7832 1 >FAT12 > >Why is the start sector 2 and not 1 ? Could that be >the problem ? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Oh, it's good to be a geek. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
