Try this: Boot DOS from a floppy,
type fdisk /mbr any errors? Also instead of setting the HD to AUTO, run the BIOS autodetect. It helps! The bios boot order is correct? 1st Floppy, 2nd HDD If all the above fail, test the CF as slave in the primary IDE channel (/dev/hdb) My friend has a SanDisk 64Mb and the only way he could boot was as slave. -----Original Message----- From: Matt Schalit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 10:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [leaf-user] CF boot problems I'm getting a whole lot of nothing when trying to boot my new SanDisk 64MB CF using an ACS IDE-CF adapter. I set the BIOS IDE detection to Auto/Auto, and I left the jumper on the IDE-CF adapter in default position indicating it would be Master. It's installed on the Primary IDE cable. The BIOS found the CF..... detected as SDCFB-64. That's all it said. I bootded to DOS-6.22, fdisk'd a primary partition of 12MB and made it active and rebooted and formatted c: /s. I can reboot to DOS-6.22 off the floppy and copy and move files back and forth from C to A and back. But it won't boot. The computer hangs right after post, as if the MBR said go to paritition 1 and load the boot code which never happens. No DOS6.22 message, nothing. I spent hours trying syslinux and whatnot, to no avail. 1If I can't get it to boot DOS, I don't think linux is going to do it. So what is it? Just the CF? I could buy a smaller one, maybe just 16 MB and see what happens. (6.22 fdisk sees it as 60MB not 64). Thanks for any ideas, matt ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
