On Sunday 11 August 2002 08:47, S Mohan wrote: > I'm trying to load bering on a PC ATA Flash card. I've a Adtron drive > and a Sandisk 8MB card. It is getting recognised as a drive and I'm > able to fdisk and format the drive. It is secondary master. I'm able > to mount it as /dev/hdc1 in bering too. However, I'm not able to > boot! I initially tried syslinux and it gave an error :unable to lock > drive for exclusive access. I did a lock c: and then tried syslinux. > Same error. I then booted up the system with a Win98 DOS floppy, did > a sys c: and copied the floppy contents to the flash card. It did not > boot up in DOS too. Sys did not give an error unlike syslinux. > > Any pointers? Is it that I'm up the wrong alley and ATA Flash disks > are not bootable?
Nope, ATA Flash disks are bootable. Using a Win9x boot disk, you will need to fix the lock problem following the advice in the "harddisk howto" in the LEAF /doc/howto section or use a MSDOS 6.x boot disk instead. You will also need to made the flash disk a "primary" disk and flag it bootable during "fdisk". Also, make sure you don't exceed a 25Meg partition (DOS limitation per partition). ATA flash disks work pretty much exactly like a hard-drive. -- ~Lynn Avants aka Guitarlynn guitarlynn at users.sourceforge.net http://leaf.sourceforge.net If linux isn't the answer, you've probably got the wrong question! ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. 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
