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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
