Hi guys,

I went to setup a "remote" box and have hit a few snags that I need some
guidance on, I "used" to be able to do this but I've either forgotten a step
or something isn't right.
Basically I have a machine that has a CDROM and a single 80GB SATA drive in
it.

I boot the machine from CD (using Bering-uClibc_4.2_i686_isolinux_vga.iso).
Mount the CDROM and apkg -i hdsupp and mtools (syslinux REQUIRES mcopy).

fdisk /dev/sda

create a primary partition (512MB in size) set it active and change it to a
FAT32 (W95).
write it out , then issue an mdev -s to have the partition appear.

firewall# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa72e66aa

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          66      530113+   b  W95 FAT32

Then the bit that doesn't work
firewall# syslinux /dev/sda1
Big disks not supported on this architecture
syslinux: failed to create ldlinux.sys

I can't actually find any notes on the Big disks error. Does anyone have an
idea?

Should I be checking the BIOS support for SATA?
I'm just not sure where to go from here.

firewall# syslinux --version
syslinux 4.03  Copyright 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al

Cheers in advance
Adam


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