Well... my 'must boot from' is only used in comparison with Win98... I reconfigured my router to work with CF last week, so my problems are VERY clear in my mind.
I have just bought a brand new Sandisk 8Mb Compact Flash card. I have tried to Syslinux it from Win98 using lock first to no avail. Therefore my insistance on using 6.2x. Also I had to use syslinux 2.00-pre6 because 1.75 did not work as expected. -----Original Message----- From: guitarlynn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 6:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Flash disk problem On Monday 12 August 2002 05:59, Luis.F.Correia wrote: > You must boot from MSDOS6.x. Nope, but you must drop the lock if using a Win9x boot disk, however using msdos6.x is easier... check Charles harddrive howto. > Then use syslinux with '-s' flag. > > I even had to use syslinux 2.00-pre6 because my CF refused to boot > with other older versions of syslinux. I've done about 20 CF disks with syslinux 1.66 (as have other people I know). Some later releases may not work as I haven't used a later version. > One other thing, try to use the device as primary master. It works a > LOT better. Yep, setting up a non-*nix based OS to boot from a non-primary partition is asking for frustration! The 25Meg partition limit with the DOS fs is a commonly forgotten limitation when using larger disks. -- ~Lynn Avants aka Guitarlynn guitarlynn at users.sourceforge.net http://leaf.sourceforge.net If linux isn't the answer, you've probably got the wrong question! ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: Dice - The leading online job board for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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