[Voyage-linux] Voyage MPD 0.9.1 not booting to large (16GB) CF cards?

[Mark Schlegel]

I finally found my usb/serial adapter so I could see the serial console, 
the 0.9.1 I just updated to starts booting then stops
at:

GRUB Loading stage1.5

GRUB loading, please wait....
Internal error: the second sector of stage 2 is unknown.

this is with the CF card partitioned as two 8GB ext2 primary partitions.
This is a card that was working fine with Voyage MPD 0.8.5.

The hardware is Alix 2d2, this error shows little help on google.




On 10/14/2013 12:34 AM, Mark Schlegel wrote:
>
> A long time back (8/26/2012 post) I had a 16GB CF card with Voyage MPD
> 0.8.5 on it and found it could not boot properly if I partitioned it as
> one big 16GB partition. I tried cutting it to two 8GB ext2 partitions
> and that worked fine with Voyage MPD 0.8.5 as the first 8GB partition.
>
> I've now tried to upgrade to Voyage MPD 0.9.1 and I had forgotten thing
> about partitioning it to the two partitions and I used the install
> script to just overwrite the card and make it one 16GB partition.
>
> I tried to boot and it failed but I can't seem to find my USB / Serial
> dongle so I can't check the terminal for the grub error 18 I got before.
>
> So does the new Voyage MPD still have a problem with the large CF
> partitions or is this maybe a ext2 limitation?  I was thinking with
> the newer kernel it would fix that but maybe it's because we use the old
> ext2?  I checked into the limits on ext2 and it should be fine with
> a 16GB partition. I did the mkfs.ext2 using the mkfs that comes with
> Fedora 19 so that's a very new mkfs command.
>
> Mark
>
>

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