Hello Guys
That was very useful - thanks!
It solved my problem.
Before I solved the problem, I changed the geometry of my CF card to
what my alixBIOS 0.99 beleived it had - and reports so at boot. The
alixBIOS argues, that the amount of sectors per track is always 63 - but
linux 2.6 (using fdisk) is more flexible than that. But this alone still
would not allow me to boot 1GB Voyage Linux CF card installs. Only after
I switched to a 512MB install - it worked.
So now I don't think anymore, that it is a problem of the alixBIOS,
because forcing the geometry alone didn't help. And both - the ALIX and
grub have no problem, booting large CF cards.
@Punky: about list replies - I really think, this is a discussion list -
so mail usually goes to the list only - with a meaningful subject line
(i.e. not digest...). The only reason to add individual CC is, if CC is
not a member of the list - or if CC uses digest format and needs the
reply immediately. I could still use reply to all to get the individual
senders and receipients.
-Renato
Nick L. schrieb:
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Mike O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Hi Guys
I had a similar issue with two different 2 GB CF cards. They
would not boot into grub when I made one big 2 GB partition. I
made one smaller 512MB partition and installed onto that. All
was fine after that. What size compact flash are you using?
This should not matter as long as your using grub as the boot loader,
but your experience make be correct.
Grub when installed in the master boot record would handle the
partition.
Mike
I was using grub as the boot loader on both the San Disk Ultra II and
the Kingston. Neither would boot until I made the smaller partitions.
Didn't try LILO though...
By the way, should one reply to the list only or the list and a CC?
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