Hi Eric, Ah OK, well I returned the board anyway, so... But one question, how could you partition the CF card like this if you use an installer like the Debian installer that has a guided partitioning utility? Since this will overwrite the partition table and reformat the CF card anyway... Robin
> -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Lammerts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 9:20 PM > To: Robin Kipp > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Soekris] Question about Debian Linux on Soekris boards > > > 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
