[Soekris] Setting up CF card

[Jonathon Exley]

I have found Lilo installs from within chroot a bit flakey - some times
I have to re-run the command a couple of times.
I have no idea why.
Grub seems easier to install, but doesn't always work - I found that the
same CF card with grub as bootloader worked on one 4801 and not another.
 
Jonathon 

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From: soekris-tech-bounces at lists.soekris.com
[mailto:soekris-tech-bounces at lists.soekris.com] On Behalf Of David Cohen
Sent: Tuesday, 15 May 2007 7:41 a.m.
To: soekris-tech at lists.soekris.com
Subject: [Soekris] Setting up CF card


Hi group,

I have a net4501-60 that I have installed Slackware 11 with a 2.6.20
kernel, using a 4GB laptop drive.   I want to duplicate this to a 2GB CF
card.  I'm using about 1.2G of drive space currently. I've been unable
to make the soekris boot on CF.

On CF, I set up 1st partition as swap (256MB), then 2nd as ext2. With CF
mounted as hdb2, I ran "lilo -r /mnt/hdb2 -C /etc/lilo.conf". That was
supposed to take care of the boot sector.  Then  I copied the files over
from HD to CF from toplevel of HD root using cp -a (direrctory), one at
a time .  After that, I set flash=primary from soekris BIOS.  When I try
to boot, I get kicked back to the BIOS menu, BIOS say "no boot device
available".  Boots fine from HD after I set flash=secondary.

Can anyone offer advice?  Thanks for your time.
Dave


Best Regards,
Dave Cohen
davelcohen2000 at yahoo.com 

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