[Voyage-linux] Problem booting DD image

[Gustin Johnson]

FYI PCEngines uses tinyBIOS, it is still a bios, just a really
stripped down one.

You should be able to clone on CF to another, I have in fact done
this.  I have not really messed with Soekris hardware but I have a
hard time believing that it is significantly different from the PC
Engines stuff.

Doing a dd or ddrescue to differently geometry should not be a problem
as long as the target geometry is larger (I have a mix of CF cards, I
keep my base image small enough to fit on the smallest card that I
have).

Now cloning to a thumb drive might be a problem if the BIOS does not
or cannot boot from USB.  What model of Soekris is this?

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Jim Cromie <jim.cromie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Jim Salk <jsalk at salk.net> wrote:
>> I have my CF card set up with Voyage just the way I want.  Now I would like
>> to clone it for use in additional systems.
>>
>> I tried using DD to clone the CF card to a thumb drive and then back to a
>> second CF card.  It did not work because the thumb drive was larger.
>>
>> I then used DD to create an ISO of the CF card and using it to create a new
>> CF card.  That seemed to work (no DD errors), but the card would not boot.
>>
>> So I purchased another card reader and used DD to make a copy of the
>> original CF card directly to a new one.  No errors, but the new card would
>> not boot either.
>>
>> I understand that if you DD a bootable drive, the new drive should be
>> bootable as well.  I assume this is correct.  The new card should be a
>> bit-accurate copy of the original.  Yet the new card will not boot.
>>
>> Is there anything I am missing here?
>>
>
> FWIW, I thrashed away many hours while trying to get a 2nd CF drive to boot,
> when it had identical image as 1st CF.  Turns out I had to poweroff my Soekris,
> a reset was insufficient for the BIOS to see the new drive.  IIRC, it
> uses a bios
> derived/licensed from PCEngine's pcbios.
>
>> Thanks, in advance, for your help.
>>
>> - Jim
>>
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