compact flash woes

[Adi Linden]

Hi,

Try dos fdisk and dos 'fdisk /mbr' to restor the boot sector.

TTYL,
Adi

On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Matthew Schumacher wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> I am trying to put together a router that runs from a compact flash
> card.  Anyway, I could not get the card to boot to linux no matter what
> I tried, however I could sys the disk in dos and boot dos.  Anyway I
> fdisked the compact flash card trying to make it work and now I can't
> get anything to work.  I noticed that there is a warning on the site
> about fdisk, but unfortunately I didn't read it until it was to late.  I
> still think that the card works because I have a fat16 FS on it now and
> I can see it from a dos boot disk just fine, I just can't boot from it. 
> Is there anything I can do to fix the problem?  I wonder if a format
> command on a digital camera will fix my problem.
> 
> thanks
> 
> schu
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