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

[Mark Schlegel]

Punky:

I finally got it booting by chopping the CF so the MPD 0.9.1 partition 
was only 4GB (and I set the partition as having the boot flag) and then
I reinstalled Voyage MPD from the tar file.
I'm not sure if Linux needs the old style boot flag but my Fedora boot
partition had it so I put it on.  I guess the Alix 2d2 CF card can't
boot from partitions bigger than a certain size?  The remaining 12GB on
the card (/dev/sdc2) is unallocated.

Mark

On 10/14/2013 11:45 PM, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> I have a Voyage system serving as NAS running on an ATOM PC with 320GB HDD.
>
> FYI.  The HDD is using GPT table (use gparted) and the filesystem is ext3.
>
> Regards,
> Punky
>
> On 10/14/2013 1:49 PM, Mark Schlegel wrote:
>>
>> 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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