Hello Steve,

> I understand that syslinux is the preferred boot loader for Bering
> uClibc. I am booting from a compact flash card.
>
>
> At the moment, I am having to 'lilo' the CF card on another PC whenever I
> need to make a change to the modules loaded on boot, since I don't have
> lilo for Bering uClibc.
>
> I understand that syslinux only works with FAT16 filesystems and 512 byte
> sectors, so I have bought a 32MB compact flash card and have formatted it
> in order to comply with this restriction. It has 62288 sectors of 512
> bytes.
>
AFAIK syslinux doesn't have that restriction, at least not a recent version.

> But when I run...
>
>
> syslinux /dev/had
>
> ... I get
>
>
> /dev/hda: This doesn't look like a FAT filesystem
> /dev/had: Sector sizes other than 512 not supported
>
How exactly did you partioned/format your card?

Here is a description on how to create a bootable CF:
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/bk02ch11s03.html

I'm not sure if you make a typo in this mail but the correct command is:
syslinux /dev/hda1
(note the "1")

>
> Is there a workaround to this so I can still use syslinux, or is there
> another boot loader that is available for use with Bering-uClibc ?
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.
>
>
> Steve
>
Eric



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