[Peeweelinux] RE compact flash partitions

Adi Linden [email protected]
Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:27:08 -0600 (CST) 

Hi Dan,

Did you try forcing the geometry the BIOS reports onto the card? I would 
suggest trying to manually fdisk the card to see if you can get it 
partitioned, formatted and mounted.

I take it you are using the cf card via a CF-IDE adapter?

Adi

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Daniel Hennessey wrote:

> Adi,
> 
> Initially I was using pwlconfig to do everything, but after failing I have
> tried (probably) every conceivable method of partitioning, formatting,
> populating and bootsectoring (?) the cf card. The card is a PQI FC032 32Mb.
> I have checked the web site but my Korean isn't up to much. 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Dan
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Adi Linden [SMTP:[email protected]]
> > Sent:	14 January 2002 15:11
> > To:	daniel hennessey
> > Cc:	[email protected]
> > Subject:	Re: [Peeweelinux] RE compact flash partitions
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > What are you using to load the filesystem onto the card? What is the make 
> > and model of the card?
> > 
> > Adi
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, 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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