compact flash woes

[Matthew Schumacher]

Adi,

I didn't know that you are the one that put together peeweelinux.  If I
had known I would have bought the cf adapter from you because I like to
support linux.  Anyway.....

I did a fdisk /mbr using a windows 98 boot disk and that seems to work
fine, but when I run fdisk I get error reading fixed disk.  I got this
error before the boot problem but didn't worry about it because it
booted fine.  I can read the disk with partition magic.  I can make a
dos partition and format it.  I can also see the formated disk and copy
data to and from it, but still can't boot.

Any other ideas?  I am thinking about trying syslinux to make it boot.

Also, what is the correct way to put linux on a compact flash anyway? 
Syslinux, with a initrd?

schu

Adi Linden wrote:
> 
> 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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