FYI PCEngines uses tinyBIOS, it is still a bios, just a really stripped down one.
You should be able to clone on CF to another, I have in fact done this. I have not really messed with Soekris hardware but I have a hard time believing that it is significantly different from the PC Engines stuff. Doing a dd or ddrescue to differently geometry should not be a problem as long as the target geometry is larger (I have a mix of CF cards, I keep my base image small enough to fit on the smallest card that I have). Now cloning to a thumb drive might be a problem if the BIOS does not or cannot boot from USB. What model of Soekris is this? On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Jim Cromie <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Voyage-linux mailing list [email protected] http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux
