[Peeweelinux] RE compact flash partitions

[Adi Linden]

Hi Dan,

You're the first one reporting problems partitioning the CF Card using the 
USB reader. Your description of the problem is very similar to what 
prompted me to post the warning about using the CF-IDE adapter to 
partition CF devices. This makes me wonder whether it is really an issue 
with the adapter? I am using Sandisk and Kingston cards in 4MB, 16MB, 
32MB, 64MB sizes and never had the problem described using the USB reader.

I am using syslinux primarily because I find it more convenient. I don't 
have to rerun lilo on the device when changing kernel or ramdisk image. In 
fact, I can access the CF using another OS to replace kernel and ramdisk 
if necessary. The syslinux approach isn't that good if you require an 
uncompressed filesystem on the CF card.

Regards,
Adi  


On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Daniel Hennessey wrote:

> 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
>