[Peeweelinux] Compact Flash

[Leif Steinhour]

I am happy to be wrong about that. Did you have to do anything special 
(beyond the kgcc changes) to get it running? Are you using a stock kernel 
or one you've compiled yourself?


On 2003.04.23 03:47 Ricardo Trindade wrote:
> I only disagree with the rh8 part, I'm running fine on it.
> 
> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: peeweelinux-admin@adis.on.ca [mailto:peeweelinux-admin@adis.on.ca]Em
> nome de Leif Steinhour
> Enviada: quarta-feira, 23 de Abril de 2003 2:41
> Para: peeweelinux@adis.on.ca
> Assunto: Re: [Peeweelinux] Compact Flash
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Okay, a bunch of people have written about this, so I want to set some
> things straight.
> 
> Here's what I think is going on:
> 
> 1). PWL is probably having even more problems running under RH 8.x than
> it
> did under 7.x. My advice: go back and install 6.2 (that's right) on your
> development platform. You should be able to get it online, it will make
> your life much easier.
> 2). This stuff about things not working on Compact flash is half
> nonsense.
> IDE Compact flash cards are pin-compatible with ide hard disks (if you
> look online they even sell header boards which route all the signals
> without modifying them), so Pee Wee runs fine on both ATA compact flash
> and ATA PCMCIA cards. There are some cards that are sold as "memory"
> cards
> that do not have the IDE circuitry built in that will not work (as BOOT
> devices, but fine for storing info once card services is loaded), but if
> you get a card that says it shows up as an ide device then it will work
> provided the card is working (flash drives can wear out). If you have
> questions about a given card that you have, plug it in to a machine that
> has the pcmcia drivers and utlities installed properly and see what
> cardinfo/cardctl have to say about the device.
> 
> Pee Wee will automatically (thanks Adi!) do all of the partitioning, so
> all you need to figure out is where on the development platform the
> target
> device is installed and tell pwlconfig in one of the setup screens. For
> compact flash and PCMCIA devices, either during startup or when the
> device
> is inserted it should tell you, for instance "/dev/hde1". You can use the
> 
> dmesg command to show information about the boot, otherwise it should
> print the info to your console during a card insertion. Make sure you're
> not using your host drive as the target, or you will not be happy with
> the
> results. The command df will tell you where your host drives are mounted
> so you can check.
> 3). If you are installing pee wee on a Disk on Chip, then you need to do
> more work, because the kernel you use must have the right drivers, and I
> will refer the reader to past posts in the archives for the appropriate
> info.
> 
> 
> On 2003.04.22 17:55 Correy Edmed wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I am currently at work experience and trying to set up peewee linux. I
> > have a PCM-3350 GX1 300Mhz Embedded PC and have a Sandisk 256M Compact
> > Flash card that I want to install the operating system on.
> >
> > I have heard bad reports about formatting and partitioning CF cards and
> 
> > this is where I am up to at the moment. I guess I need to partition the
> 
> > CF card with a boot sector (hda1)  OS (hda2) and swap (hda3).
> >
> > I have already experimented with the embedded PC using an ide HDD that
> I
> > have installed Redhat 8 on. The CF card just arrived and I placed it in
> 
> > the CompactFlash socket and it is recognised in the bios as an ide
> > device however I have no idea on how to mount it.
> >
> > While reading about PCMCIA I noticed in relation to CF cards about
> > "ftl_format -i /dev/mem0c0c" however this file (mem0c0c) isn't even in
> > my dev directory. Also after reading the man page for ftl_format I
> > noticed that you are able to create a boot secotor which perhaps is
> what
> > I need.
> >
> > Any help on setting up the Compact Flash Card so I can start installing
> 
> > peewee linux would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Correy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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