[Peeweelinux] RE compact flash partitions

[Daniel Hennessey]

I have considered using syslinux but it feels like a bit of a cop out. Why
use a DOS partition (using up valuable blocks on my cf card) to work around
problems that I don't understand? Seems like a bit of a Micro$haft approach!
Why would a DOS partition behave when others don't? Is it the BIOS
implementation on my mobo? I will persevere with what I am doing at the
moment which is using sfdisk to partition the drive and dd to manipulate the
bootsector. At least I am learning a hell of a lot about partitioning and
bootloading.

By the way, I use the Sandisk USB flash reader/writer to partition the card
'cause I heard there were problems with the cf-ide adaptor.

Cheers y'all.

Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Adi Linden [SMTP:adi@adis.on.ca]
> Sent:	14 January 2002 16:29
> To:	Matthew Schumacher
> Cc:	peeweelinux@adis.on.ca
> Subject:	Re: [Peeweelinux] RE compact flash partitions
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Have you considered syslinux as bootloader? It works from a DOS filesystem
> 
> but doesn't require any DOS related files.
> 
> Adi
> 
> 
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Matthew Schumacher wrote:
> 
> > I had problems with my cf card and in the end I put a dos filesystem on
> > it and used loadlin in the autoexec.bat to load the linux kernel. 
> > 
> > I realize that this isn't the best way to to do this, but I just
> > couldn't make it boot from a linux filesystem.
> > 
> > Later,
> > 
> > schu
> > 
> > daniel hennessey wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I have found the reason why when I cannot boot from the peeweelinux
> installation on my compact flash card! Whenever I put the card in the
> cf-ide converter, it either cannot read or corrupts the partition table! I
> haven't worked out if it is the mobo, the cf-ide conv or the cf card
> itself. The other thing I cannot work out is what the geometry of the card
> should be. It is detected by the mobo bios as 4 heads 16 sectors and 500
> cylinders, but cfdisk (or fdisk or sfdisk) SOMETIMES reported it as 2 x 16
> x 500 or 2 x 8 x 1000 !!!
> > > 
> > > In short, has anybody had similar problems with cf cards or does
> anybody know of a source of information for using cf cards under linux.
> > > 
> > > Cheers
> > > 
> > > Dan
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