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Hello Guys<br>
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That was very useful - thanks!<br>
It solved my problem.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
@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.<br>
<br>
-Renato<br>
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Nick L. schrieb:
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cite="mid:2eb3777f0805171810h12540705o8ec0e0b0121942e@mail.gmail.com"
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Mike
O'Connor <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:mike@pineview.net">mike@pineview.net</a>>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi
Guys
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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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?<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">This should not matter as long as your using
grub as the boot loader,<br>
but your experience make be correct.<br>
<br>
Grub when installed in the master boot record would handle the
partition.<br>
<br>
Mike<br>
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<div><br>
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...<br>
<br>
By the way, should one reply to the list only or the list and a CC? <br>
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