Wim I think you found the answer, or at least part of it. When I have only the HD the bios says that the HD is primary master. When I have the HD and the CF the bios says that the CF is primary master and no mention of the HD.
The HD needs a jumper put on it to make it cable select, with no jumper it is primary master. I don't have of those tiny laptop jumpers so I'll have to look on ebay or something. I guess that if I can boot from the CF with the HD as slave that's good enough. I can create the image without the CF present, scp the image onto my desktop and then dd from there using a usb adaptor, then put it in and boot it. thanks, Philip Wim Vandeputte Mailing list only wrote: > hey, > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:54:40PM +0000, Philip wrote: >> My net5501 currently runs from an IDE harddisk, however I would like to >> migrate to a 4G CF card and use nanobsd. >> >> The problem is that if I put the CF card in the slot the net5501 won't >> boot from the harddisk, which I need it to in order to copy the image >> onto the CF card. >> >> I tried playing with "boot 81" from the bios, and "set flash=secondary" >> but I still can't get to boot from harddisk. > > Set your IDE harddisk to 'cable select', it's the same jumper that does > master/slave but it varies from brand on how to do it. > > Then you can use the BIOS setting to make the CF either master or secondary > > PS: post a screen capture of your BIOS where it detects the harddisk so we > can see which one is recognised as master > > Wim. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
