I'm through. Problem was with Win 98 dos disk. I tried dos 6.22 boot disk and all went thro' fine. PC ATA as primary master - installed dos and booted with dos. PC ATA installed as secondary master - installed dos and booted with dos. Then I tried dos version of syslinux on PC ATA primary master, booted with floppy and xfrd all files to hda1, modified syslinux.cfg. Had a problem in booting - system was asking for floppy0 and gave kernel panic. Figured it has something to do with disk not being recognised. Included ide-mod, ide-disk and ide-probe in /boot/etc/modules, copied the files to /boot/lib/modules directory and backed up the packages to hda1.
I was home. Thanx a ton to all those who helped me out. The pointer of using MSDOS 6.22 was very useful. Thankfully I did not have to go thro' a compile of syslinux on RH and then do a system xfr. Mohan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Cass Tolken Sent: 11 August, 2002 10:59 PM To: S Mohan; 'Leaf' Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Flash disk problem 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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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
