Thanks very much for the quick response! I won't bore you with the rest of my difficulties, enough to say that was the key thing I missed and I've got my Alix/Voyage system working again now with the new CF card.
- Norm Henderson On 2011-07-09, Norman Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, sorry if this is a newbie issue, I've searched without success. > > I've been running Voyage 0.6.5 for a year without problems on an Alix > 3d3 with a CF card. I have been making backups to an external HDD > using "dd if=/dev/sda1 of={filename}.img bs=1M". A few weeks ago my CF > card started corrupting data and has now died, there is apparently no > recoverable data. I bought a new CF card and desperately want to get > back a running system from my latest backup. > > The only other resource I have is a Windows 7 laptop, although I do > have Ubuntu running on it in a VirtualBox VM (and I can also > successfully boot the Voyage LiveCD in that VM). So, I used a tool > "ImDisk" to mount the .img file in Windows, made it visible in > VirtualBox as IDE Primary Master, and made my CF reader/writer visible > as a USB HDD device. So far so good. Using Ubuntu, I was able to fdisk > the CF to create a partition of the same size as before (the physical > device appears to be slightly larger than the old one), marked it > bootable, and used "dd" to restore the image. The parameters reported > by fdisk were exactly the same as the old CF, I could mount it fine in > the VM, and the contents appeared to be complete. > > Problem: I then installed the CF in my Alix board and although the > BIOS recognizes it (reports the CF's manufacturer etc.) after POST I > get "disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter". I have no > idea what I've missed... > > I do recall that when I originally built my system I didn't manage to > create a bootable CF at that time either, working on an external > system. I ended up booting the Alix board from a thumb drive with > Voyage 0.6.5 Live and ran the complete install from there to the CF. I > really don't want to do this again because it would mean losing all > the software and installs that I've done over the past year - and I'm > also now in Africa, restricted to slow / unreliable / expensive > Internet. > > Suggestions? > > Thanks, Norm Henderson > _______________________________________________ Voyage-linux mailing list [email protected] http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux
