[Peeweelinux] RE compact flash partitions

[Matthew Schumacher]

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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