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Bill & Kim, thanks for the feedback. still I am not able to boot after using the geometry that net4521 reports. When I use these parameters with fdisk, I get a warning to the effect that the Dos compatibility flag is being set. Expert command (m for help): c Number of cylinders (1-1048576, default 1018): 971 Expert command (m for help): h Number of heads (1-256, default 124): 128 Expert command (m for help): s Number of sectors (1-63, default 62): 63 Warning: setting sector offset for DOS compatiblity I don't exactly know what that means but I don't like the sound of that! Especially since I am not using a fat file system. Further, when the 4521 boots with an install on top of these settings I see no grub messages, things just appear to freeze right off the bat. By the way I finally caved and downloaded Voyage linux, and tried their menu driven installer. Followed their instructions, regarding partitioning and formatting. I get the same boot issues: when using the 4521 detected geometry an imediate crash and when using the default fdisk geometry: grub loading stage 1.5 read error. Also, I notice that with the 4521 geometry reports the drive size as 4009M while 4521 bios reports 3915M. I am not sure if I should be very concerned over this. however it seems that they both can't be correct. Bill Maas wrote: Hi burlen, On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 09:54 -0500, burlen wrote:Hi, I just got a new 4G CF card and am trying to get my net4521 up and running. I specifically would like to put ubuntu on it, with a debootstrap cross install via my laptop. Its has been a while since I played with this board and I seem to have misplaced all of the documentation. As such there a few things I am not quite sure of: |
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