[Voyage-linux] voyage 0.5.0 on ALIX

[Renato Mercurio]

Hello Guys

That was very useful - thanks!
It solved my problem.

Before I solved the problem, I changed the geometry of my CF card to 
what my alixBIOS 0.99 beleived it had - and reports so at boot. The 
alixBIOS argues, that the amount of sectors per track is always 63 - but 
linux 2.6 (using fdisk) is more flexible than that. But this alone still 
would not allow me to boot 1GB Voyage Linux CF card installs. Only after 
I switched to a 512MB install - it worked.

So now I don't think anymore, that it is a problem of the alixBIOS, 
because forcing the geometry alone didn't help. And both - the ALIX and 
grub have no problem, booting large CF cards.

@Punky: about list replies - I really think, this is a discussion list - 
so mail usually goes to the list only - with a meaningful subject line 
(i.e. not digest...). The only reason to add individual CC is, if CC is 
not a member of the list - or if CC uses digest format and needs the 
reply immediately. I could still use reply to all to get the individual 
senders and receipients.

-Renato


Nick L. schrieb:
>
>
> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Mike O'Connor <mike at pineview.net 
> <mailto:mike at pineview.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Guys
>
>
>         I had a similar issue with two different 2 GB CF cards. They
>         would not boot into grub when I made one big 2 GB partition. I
>         made one smaller 512MB partition and installed onto that. All
>         was fine after that. What size compact flash are you using?
>
>
>     This should not matter as long as your using grub as the boot loader,
>     but your experience make be correct.
>
>     Grub when installed in the master boot record would handle the
>     partition.
>
>     Mike
>
>
> I was using grub as the boot loader on both the San Disk Ultra II and 
> the Kingston. Neither would boot until I made the smaller partitions.  
> Didn't try LILO though...
>
> By the way, should one reply to the list only or  the list and a CC?
>
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