On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Jim Salk <[email protected]> wrote: > I have my CF card set up with Voyage just the way I want. Now I would like > to clone it for use in additional systems. > > I tried using DD to clone the CF card to a thumb drive and then back to a > second CF card. It did not work because the thumb drive was larger. > > I then used DD to create an ISO of the CF card and using it to create a new > CF card. That seemed to work (no DD errors), but the card would not boot. > > So I purchased another card reader and used DD to make a copy of the > original CF card directly to a new one. No errors, but the new card would > not boot either. > > I understand that if you DD a bootable drive, the new drive should be > bootable as well. I assume this is correct. The new card should be a > bit-accurate copy of the original. Yet the new card will not boot. > > Is there anything I am missing here? >
FWIW, I thrashed away many hours while trying to get a 2nd CF drive to boot, when it had identical image as 1st CF. Turns out I had to poweroff my Soekris, a reset was insufficient for the BIOS to see the new drive. IIRC, it uses a bios derived/licensed from PCEngine's pcbios. > Thanks, in advance, for your help. > > - Jim > > _______________________________________________ > Voyage-linux mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux > _______________________________________________ Voyage-linux mailing list [email protected] http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux
