On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Gustin Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > FYI PCEngines uses tinyBIOS, it is still a bios, just a really > stripped down one. >
ah yes, I misremembered the name. maybe pcbios is what Soekris calls it, but I do think it was licensed and altered by Soekris from PCEngines. > 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. > I havent tried to dd an image, its fairly straightforward to install from tarball, and am not disputing dd-ability - Id expect it to work, with the CHS/LBA caveats that have been mentioned - relying on the all CFs block<->flash mapping being compatible is asking for trouble. Supposedly, Cylinder > 1023 triggers LBA in most devices, so maybe thats a simplifying factor, iff they all do so. at any rate, hot-swapping CFs doesnt work on Soekris, on reboot it drops to combios prompt, after failing to find bootable device. Cycling power will fix it. I havent tried putting the same CF back in after pulling it, maybe sometime. I responded on the chance that OP had been hotswapping CFs without cycling the power, and has a BIOS with a similar bug/characteristic. > 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? net4801, circa 2005 It cannot boot from USB, as I read once, so never tried. > > 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
