I am not using a Soekris board. I am using an Alix board.
dd does not report any errors, but the cloned CF card does not boot. I
have no idea why.
I will try ddrescue and see if the results are any different.
- Jim
On 9/6/2011 12:16 AM, Gustin Johnson wrote:
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
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