On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Christian Kratzer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 27 Jun 2011, Jim Cromie wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Bryan Irvine <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Can you say what kind of cards they are? Manufacturer? Model? >> >> good one is a Sandisk >> broken 4GB is an ATP, >> broken 16MB is unknown >> >> FWIW, using fdisk xpert mode, >> Ive tried setting CHS on 4GB disk to match those on Sandisk. >> the new settings didnt take (I didnt forget the write) >> >> Are CHS values on a CF typically read-only ? >> is it hardwired into the disk-emulation ? >> >> are there known limitations to the PC-BIOS >> wrt CHS settings it understands ? > > the soekris bios is advanced enough (1) to use logical sector addressing so > CHS is mostly irrelevant for soekris hardware. >
Ooh. I didnt know that soekris BIOS was LBA. thanks for that, you got me off that track.. So it appears the problem was not powering off soekris when swapping CF cards. Hitting reset is not enough apparently, I kept getting this, which had me thinking CHS issues comBIOS Monitor. Press ? for help. > boot 80 No Boot device available, enter monitor. comBIOS Monitor. Press ? for help. with power-cycle, CF is recognized, grub is loaded, boot proceeds.. > Your problme is propably somewhere else in the bootstapping of linux. > > (1) in contrast to alix stuff that uses CHS > > Greetings > Christian > thanks again. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
