Hi Victor,
I think I'm out of luck. I have created a bootable CF card using my
laptop with Ubuntu and an integrated card reader. I then tried to boot
from that card with the IDE cardreader on two different systems. A AMD
K5 and a Dell Pentium II 450 (old but good enough for a firewall). The
AMD refuses to power on when I have the cardreader in master mode. With
the cardreader in slave mode it is found by BIOS as an LS-120 drive. But
it refuses to boot from it. The Dell BIOS just doesn't find anything no
matter the card reader is slave or master. I have set the BIOS on both
systems to auto-detect the ide drives.
According to the manual with the cardreader it uses the IDE/ATAPI
interface so I would expect it to be found as a CDROM at least. I'm
stuck and back to the floppy.
Regards
Chera
Victor McAllister wrote:
Chera Bekker wrote:
Hi Ron, thanks for your reply. My problem is that I am booting from
bering floppy with the initrd-ide-cd and I am trying to follow the
instructions for creating a CF card. I am using an old CF card and I
have no Idea what it contains. I am trying to use fdisk to create a
partition and a MBR on the CF card but if the system thinks it's a
floppy I cannot access it through hda. I tried fd1 but that gives
all kind of strange errors in dmesg.
I tried booting the system without a CF card in the reader but then
the reader is not found at all.
I need to find a way to tell ide-detect that the device is not a
floppy but a (removable) harddisk
regards
Chera Bekker
how did you setup the BIOS on the host computer? CF's may need a
proper BIOS setting to be read, even though they are on an ide adaptor.
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