David Goodenough wrote: > On Saturday 14 March 2009, Przemyslaw Maszenda wrote: > >> Sorry for off topic, but this is the place where somebody could help me. >> I'm looking for CF which reports in bios < 1024 cylinder and has as big >> size as possible. >> This is not for soekris router but for other one, with old bios, which >> support only hard disk with no of cylinders below 1024. >> >> ALL CF which I have (big and small like 1GB/2GB) all reports more than >> 1024 cylinders :(. >> >> >> Have you tried partitionon the CF, with the first partition <1024 cyl >> and then do the install (at least the kernel that the BIOS must >> load) into that first partition? >> >> Of course, I've tried, with no success. The same is with harddisk: If I try to connect 40 GB hdd, with > 1024 cylinders, even first small partition doesn't boot, but if this harddisk set to < 1024 cylinders (switch on hd, this decrease size to 32 GB), my device boots without problem.
I think this is pboblem(bug) in bios that hang on disk with > 1024 cylinders and don't boot. Similar problem I had few years ago with standard ASUS motherboard (P5). _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
