Just to add a 'me too'...
I'm using a USB cardreader to install on 1GB and 2GB CF cards for
Soekris net4801s. I've found that the grub boot sector isn't being
written to the cards if the boot partition is too big.
For example, a 2GB partition on a 2GB card won't boot, but using a 512MB
partition on the same card works. The first 512 bytes of the device
contain the word "GRUB" if it has worked.
Hope this helps someone find the cause of the problem.
Cheers,
Andrew Greig
On 28/07/08 15:33, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE wrote:
Hi Mathieu,
I also do not know why lilo work but grub doesn't. But it is based on
my experience and some reported problems. See this thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.voyage.general/2276
Regards,
Punky
Mathieu Simon wrote:
Hi Punky and all who tried helping me
Indeed, switching from grub to lilo made it. Why?!
I have a usb cardreader, which could also have caused some
disturbances and the darn usb automounting of my xfce desktop. I had
less strange output during format-cf.sh using in console-only mode
than in xfce, but grub didn't work as well. I checked too, if the
partition was set bootable, and it was. Strange... My system is lenny
(testing), could it be that it only works with etch?
I hope that the rest will work as well and hope voyage will be growing
further.
Big thx for all the answers and hints!
Mathieu
2008/7/28 Kim-man 'Punky' TSE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
If you can't get the grub prompt, you can try the lilo as a
bootloader and see if it works. This sometimes happens if you are
running voyage.update on a non-Debian host for installing to CF.
Regards,
Punky
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