Hi S Mohan, --- S Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
I had the same "unable to lock drive for exclusive access." error message when I tried using the dos version of syslinux. It worked great with the linux version. I first tried using the syslinux binary from my RH box but that didn't work with either Bering or Tom's Root Boot floppies. What I wound up doing is downloading the source for syslinux to my full linux box and compiling it statically linked. IIRC, I think I just added a -static as a compiler option in the Makefile. > Any pointers? Is it that I'm up the wrong alley and ATA Flash disks are > not bootable? Also for booting dos, have you tried fdisk /mbr before the sys c: ? Other than that... I don't know if it'll make a difference but maybe try it as primary master? Hope this helps. -- Cass __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com ------------------------------------------------------- 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
