[Soekris] Booting off a Samsung CF/ATA?

[Arthur van Leeuwen]

> From: Lars Eggert <larse at ISI.EDU>
> Subject: [Soekris] Booting off a Samsung CF/ATA?
>
> is anyone using I/O DATA compact flash cards (they are detected as
> "SAMSUNG CF/ATA" by the net4521)? I can't seem to boot off them.
>
> I see the normal net4521 boot messages, up to "1 Seconds to automatic
> boot. Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor." Then I get a few seconds of
> pause, followed by "Read error".
>
> Any clues?

You are using GRUB, right? There seems to be a nasty interaction between GRUB
and the LBA mode used by the net45{2,0}1 BIOS. As LBA is only enabled above
1024 cylinders only CF cards with more than 1024 cylinders are affected.

I've had the exact same problem with my Samsung cards. They register as over
1024 cylinders (1994 I seem to recall). The problem went away when I
switched to Sandisk cards or when I used LILO.

Two solutions: revert to LILO or use other CF cards.

Oh, Soeren, could you look into what might be happening?

Doei, Arthur.

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