[Soekris] Hot insert CF card?

[Brian Candler]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:18:51AM -0500, K K wrote:
> On 5/21/08, Erik Cummings <erik at usatogether.org> wrote:
> > The only solution I can seem to come up with is hot-inserting the CF -
> > but that doesn't work - or at least i don't know how to make it work.
> 
> Maybe prep each newly purchased CF with a mini filesystem image?
> A boot partition containing a netboot bootloader would be sufficient.
> 
> Of course at that point you could just prep the CF with the full
> installed OS and skip the whole netboot and imaging process :)

Or alternatively, try wiping the first sector of the CF card, say in a
USB-connected card reader on a desktop PC:

# umount /media/whatever     # if your OS auto-mounts CF cards

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/xxx count=1
                          ^^^
                  your responsibility to get this right!

That may be sufficient to get the Soekris to ignore it as a boot source and
fall through to PXE.

Regards,

Brian.