I now have everything fixed and happy. 

Cpu,

What process do you use to set up your Lex systems? Have you been able
to get USB support or boot off of USB to work? The only thing that has
consistently worked for me is booting off of an IDE CDROM. This is great
and fast in the lab, but not a great option in the field. I would like
to be able to use USB as the solution to restore or do other maintenance
task.

Now that I have my CF card repartitioned and formatted with a clean
uClibc setup on it, everything is great. It looks like it was all due to
the lack of umounting before rebooting. I know that often I would backup
some changes and immediately reboot. I'm sure those were some of the
worse cases.

Thanks,

Richard Amerman

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cpu memhd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

> Auto, LBA, or CHS?
> 
> Consider this:
> 
> - Your controller is setup for Auto
> 
> - Your CF is detected as LBA
> (even though it's <= 512MB, all CFs are supposed to support LBA, my
> understanding)
> 
> - Next day, your BIOS is having a bad-hair-day, CF is now 
> detected as CHS (but you don't notice the boot message! - 
> this can be due to BIOS or CF bugs... cabling, etc.)
> 
> - You begin to experience problems with corruption, 
> strangeness/weirdness
> 
> Could this be the problem? The question is, will the CF boot 
> with the wrong HD parameters, I believe the answer to this 
> is, yes, in some cases.
> 
> I have a few Lex CV860s. They detect my Sandisk industrial's 
> as LBA. But my newer CV863A detect them as CHS. I hard set <= 
> 512MB CFs to CHS. Never a problem.


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