On 09/25/2008 12:35 PM, Robin Kipp wrote: > Well, this won't be my first embedded PC actually, I purchased an Alix > 2c2 from PCEngines a few months ago and tried to install Debian on the > Compact Flash card using the computer, however I couldn't boot the > device.
I'm using the Alix boards (2c0, 3c1, 3c2), and I am very happy with them. The only problem I have is that it seems the LBA support in the bios is broken. This can lead to boot problems if your CF card is bigger than 512Mb. You can work around this problem by partitioning your CF cards with the same C/H/S values the Alix BIOS is using. example: if the Alix board prints this on boot: 01F0 Master 848A SanDisk SDCFH-1024 Phys C/H/S 1986/16/63 Log C/H/S 993/32/63 you should partition the card with sfdisk -C 993 -H 32 -S 63. (cfdisk -c 993 -h 32 -s 63 should work too, but I haven't tested that). Eric _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
