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

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Hi,

I don't think the size of the CF card is the problem, as I do not had 
any problems with grub. And I'm using:
* 8GB Seagate microdrive (1 big ext2 partition)
* Alix1c
* Usb cardreader to install voyage
* Installation done on Red Hat Enterprise linux

Kind regards,
Tom

Andrew Greig wrote:
> 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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