Most PC BIOS can only boot from primary master device.

You should connect your flash disk to the primary connector and retry.

S Mohan schrieb:
> 
> I'm trying to load bering on a PC ATA Flash card. I've a Adtron drive
> and a Sandisk 8MB card. It is getting recognised as a drive and I'm able
> to fdisk and format the drive. It is secondary master. I'm able to mount
> it as /dev/hdc1 in bering too. However, I'm not able to boot! I
> initially tried syslinux and it gave an error :unable to lock drive for
> exclusive access. I did a lock c: and then tried syslinux. Same error. I
> then booted up the system with a Win98 DOS floppy, did a sys c: and
> copied the floppy contents to the flash card. It did not boot up in DOS
> too. Sys did not give an error unlike syslinux.
> 
> Any pointers? Is it that I'm up the wrong alley and ATA Flash disks are
> not bootable?
> 
> Mohan
> 
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