On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:43:12 +0200
martin f krafft <[email protected]> wrote:
> we operate two net5501 as firewalls in two separate locations. Both
> have identical 8Gb flash drives (ELITE PRO CF CARD 8GB), and both
> run Debian Linux — perfectly!
Having identicaly named cards does not mean they are identical.
Actually, it's far more likely that they are different, as consumer
memory products (CF cards, SD cards etc) are always optimized for
price, and frequently reoptimized.
> It seems to me that the storage device takes a while to get ready,
> except that it makes the boot sector available in time for Grub to
> start loading — but Grub then cannot access the partition table
> and/or the filesystem in the first (and one and only) partition.
That would be also my conclusion
I'd try to either get grub to wait a few seconds after loading
the first stage, or buy another CF card an try that one.
Attila Kinali
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