[Voyage-linux] voyage on ALIX 2c2 not booting (linux novice)

[Andrew Greig]

Just to add a 'me too'...

I'm using a USB cardreader to install on 1GB and 2GB CF cards for 
Soekris net4801s.  I've found that the grub boot sector isn't being 
written to the cards if the boot partition is too big.

For example, a 2GB partition on a 2GB card won't boot, but using a 512MB 
partition on the same card works.  The first 512 bytes of the device 
contain the word "GRUB" if it has worked.

Hope this helps someone find the cause of the problem.

Cheers,
Andrew Greig

On 28/07/08 15:33, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE wrote:
> Hi Mathieu,
> 
> I also do not know why lilo work but grub doesn't.  But it is based on 
> my experience and some reported problems.  See this thread:
> 
>    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.voyage.general/2276
> 
> Regards,
> Punky
> 
> Mathieu Simon wrote:
>> Hi Punky and all who tried helping me
>>
>> Indeed, switching from grub to lilo made it. Why?!
>>
>> I have a usb cardreader, which could also have caused some 
>> disturbances and the darn usb automounting of my xfce desktop. I had 
>> less strange output during format-cf.sh using in console-only mode 
>> than in xfce, but grub didn't work as well. I checked too, if the 
>> partition was set bootable, and it was. Strange... My system is lenny 
>> (testing), could it be that it only works with etch?
>>
>> I hope that the rest will work as well and hope voyage will be growing 
>> further.
>> Big thx for all the answers and hints!
>>
>> Mathieu
>>
>>
>> 2008/7/28 Kim-man 'Punky' TSE <punkytse at punknix.com 
>> <mailto:punkytse at punknix.com>>
>>
>>     If you can't get the grub prompt, you can try the lilo as a
>>     bootloader and see if it works.  This sometimes happens if you are
>>     running voyage.update on a non-Debian host for installing to CF.
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     Punky
>>
>>
>>
> 
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