On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 07:08, Zachariah Mully wrote: > Hello all- > I am having a rather baffling problem with installing WISP/Bearing on > to a 1.0G IDE harddrive. The funny thing is, I can get the drive to work > if I partition it and format it in Windows, but I can't get it to work > if I do the same in linux. > Here's what I am doing in linux: > 1)fdisk /dev/hda > 2)add 50MB FAT16 (type 6) partition as /dev/hda1 > 3)toggle bootable flag to true on /dev/hda1 > 4)use mkdosfs to create a FAT16 file system on the /dev/hda1 > 5)syslinux /dev/hda1 (using v1.52, also tried the -s option to no avail) > 6)mount partition to /wisp (mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /wisp) > 7)unzip wisp-dist_2290_pkg_wdist.zip to /wisp > 8)edit /wisp/syslinux.cfg > 9)install disk in router box and boot it, but it never finds the MBR > that syslinux should have installed (right?)... It just sits there > saying "Invalid media or replace system disk" (or whatever that error > says). > > The destination box is a Dell XPS P200s with 32MB, and I've installed > full distros on this box (and drive) before without any issues. I know > that I must be missing something totally obvious, but I can't figure it > out. At this point it's purely academic, as I can get it to work when > installed under windows, but being that I don't run windows any more > (had to take over a coworkers box to do it) it's a matter of pride that > I can get it to work under Linux ;) > > Thanks, > Zack >
Hmm. Only thing I can think of is to run syslinux _after_ unzipping the wisp package into the partition. Well, I suppose esoteric stuff like LBA could also screw it up, but you did put the fat12 partition into the first 1024 blocks, right? -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
