[Voyage-linux] Lexar CF Professional - no boot device found

[Mike O'Connor]

Hi Edwin

My testing has shown that some CF modules are not reliable, I'm sure its
something about there manufacture.
My recommendation is to just stick to CF modules that work.

Mike


Edwin Whitelaw wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I've been running Voyage on WRAPs for the last two years and have used
> both San Disk and Kingston CFs (256Mb and 512MB) with zero problems. 
> Just got in some 512MB Lexar Professional (Lt) 80x units for my latest
> builds and am getting "no boot device found" errors.
> I did an A-B test of my load procedure ( starting with fdisk, mke2fs,
> tunefs and the voyage.update) using one of the older CFs and the
> identical download directory.  On one occasion, the Lexar did actually
> boot but after about 10 tries it has not booted again.  The Kingston
> works every time.
>
> There are no problems indicated during any of the installation steps,
> only the failure to boot when installed in the WRAP.  (BTW, the WRAP
> BIOS are 1.11)
>
> Anyone else have this problem or have successfully used the Lexar CFs?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Edwin
>