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

[Edwin Whitelaw]

I sent this comment to the list back in July and have an interesting 
update.  Having just received some shiny new ALIX boards, I decided to 
retry the Lexars and much to my delight, they all work fine.  I have no 
idea whether it's something in the board. BIOS. installation scripts, 
but for those of you who may have CFs that didn't work in the WRAP you 
may be OK with them on the ALIX (BIOS 0.98).

The SanDisk and Kingston CFs still work fine as well.

Edwin

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
>

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