Due to a link I saw on the LEAF site at SF to PC Engines, I am using one of the CF-IDE
adapters with a 128 MB CF. I have verified that I can FDISK, FORMAT, and boot from it
under WIN 98 (DOS).
However, now that I want to use it as the boot medium for my LEAF router, it seems to
be determined to keep me from doing so.
I am running the Bering-1.0-RC3-1680 image. I have the box running successfully off
of only a floppy.
I have tried to do the whole trick under WIN 98 command-line to do a FDISK /MBR,
FDISK, FORMAT C:, LOCK C:, SYSLINUX -S C:. Additionally, I am trying to use the
newest Syslinux, ver 1.75. I have tried using and not using LOCK, changing the order
of most of the preceding 5 tasks, and running Syslinux with and without the "-s"
directive.
However, in every iteration, I kept getting the message "ERROR 440D: Unable to lock
drive for exclusive access" when trying to apply Syslinux (1.75).
So, I tried going to www.bootdisk.com and downloading a DOS 6.22 image, along with
Syslinux v1.67, to some better degree of success.
I am able to do a "mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt" and read/write/execute any files on
the CF, but just not able to boot from it. Now, that I've used MSDOS 6.22 and
Syslinux v1.67, I receive the following messages during boot:
/* Begin Boot Message
LINUXRC: Bering - Initrd - V1.0-rc3
Using /boot/lib/modules/ide-mod.o
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Using /boot/lib/modules/ide-disk.o
Using /boot/lib/modules/ide-probe-mod.o
hda: Hitachi CVM2.1.0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Mounting a 16M TMPFS filesystem...
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:2c (floppy), sector 2
MINIX-fs: unable to read superblock
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
hda: 250368 sectors (128 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=978/8/32
Partition check:
hda: hda1
hda: hda1
hda: hda1
FAT: bogus logical sector size 20487
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:00.
hda: hda1
hda: hda1
VFS: Can't find a Minix or Minix V2 filesystem on device 03:00.
hda: hda1
hda: hda1
FAT: bogus logical sector size 20487
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:00.
hda: hda1
hda: hda1
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:2c (floppy), sector 2
MINIX-fs: unable to read superblock
LINUXRC: Installing - root: root(nf!) etc: etc(nf!) local: local(nf!) modules:
modules(nf!)
shorwall: shorwall(nf!) weblet: weblet(nf!) - Finished.
cat: /var/lib/lrpkg/root.pn.links: No such file or directory
cat: /var/lib/lrpkg/rKernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
oot.log.links: No such file or d irectory
.: Can't open /var/lib/lrpkg/root.dev.own
End Boot Message */
Basically, what I get is that it loads the three IDE-*.O modules from the initrd.lrp
under /boot/lib/modules, that I put there. It recognizes the CF as an IDE device,
then everything goes to pot from there. However, having modified my boot floppy to
see it's LRP path as /dev/hda1, I am able to successfully boot from floppy into
INITRD, then load all LRPs from CF into a 16 MB Ram disk, but this is not complete in
my mind.
I'm at a total loss except I've thought of re-running Syslinux but with v1.75 on my
DOS 6.22 boot disk. I've also thought that the Bering 1.0RC3 kernel may not have IDE
enabled, but I would think that by loading those modules at runtime, I've taken care
of that.
Any thoughts or assistance will be greatly appreciated!
Take Care!
Rob Fegley
TGI Micro
http://www.tgimicro.com
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