[Soekris] Cfcard boot problems

[Attilla De Groot]

Hi All,


I recently bought a Soekris 4801 (266Mhz, 256mb). Very nice hardware.  
I have tried to boot it with a cfcard for the past week, but I'm not  
able to get it booting.

I'm using gentoo as linux distribution and I did a install as I have  
did alot of times. I have a flash card reader that I have connected  
to my server where I'm doing the gentoo install (/dev/sdb). I  
partitioned the cfcard, just one ext2 partition and I went in to the  
chroot of my install and run lilo.

Basic setup right ? :)

Well I tried to boot this cfcard, but I only got a screen full of 00  
00 00 00. So I check my configuration over and over and I can't find  
any mistakes as far as I can see. So I tried Grub as a bootloader,  
but when I tried to boot this I got the message "harddisk error".  
This morning I bought a new cf card in case the old one is somehow  
broken, but this didn't solve the problem.

Here are my configs:

stofzuiger flash # cat etc/lilo.conf
lba32

# MBR to install LILO to:
boot = /dev/sdb1
disk = /dev/sdb
      bios = 0x80
map = /boot/.map
#install = /boot/boot-text.b

prompt
timeout=30

vga = normal

image = /boot/kernel-2.6.18-r2
         root = /dev/hda1
         label = Soekris
         append = "console=ttyS0,9600n81 root=/dev/hda1"
#        read-only       # Mount read-only



stofzuiger flash # cat boot/grub/grub.conf
#
# Sample boot menu configuration file
#

# Boot automatically after 30 secs.
timeout 30

# By default, boot the first entry.
default 0

# For booting GNU/Linux
title  GNU/Linux
kernel /kernel-2.6.18-r2 root=/dev/hda1

# title Install GRUB into the hard disk
root    (hd0,0)
setup   (hd3)


Can anyone tell me what I did wrong of how I can sole the problem ?


Greetings,
Attilla