Hi Robin, since either no-one else answers your question or the list is down again, here a a few options:
1. Partition the CF locally (e.g. on a laptop) with custom CHS values: fdisk -C cyls -H heads -S sects ..... 2. Mount the CF in the Soekris box, boot from TFTP and install from the Soekris. In that case CHS will by definition be in accordance with what the Soekris comBIOS sees. See http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s06.html.en Very worthwhile learning if you have never done that before, and alos very useful combination with 'debootstrap'. 3. Upgrade your Soekris boxes comBIOS if V <= 1.29. The LBA problem should no longer be a problem since V1.30. This option should have probably been labeled 1;). By the way, booting with Lilo excludes CHS trouble (within reasonable limits, of course..). Bill On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 21:41 +0200, Robin Kipp wrote: > 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 > -- "There is nothing to worry about" - unknown _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
