Jim Ford wrote: > I've been using a floppy based Bering uLibC for some time now and am > very impressed with it. To speed up booting I'd like to install it on a > CF card and have pretty much followed the instructions in the docs, but > can't get it to boot. > > The card is recognised by the bios and I've set the boot order to > floppy, then ide. I've downloaded the ide initrd.lrp and put it onto a > spare Leaf floppy. I can boot from this floppy and the CF card is > recognised and I can mount it on /mnt. The firewall runs fine from the > floppy. I've copied the files from the floppy to the cf and updated the > leaf.cfg and syslinux.cfg files to reflect the package paths, and run > syslinx.com (3.31) from a dos floppy to put the system on the cf. > > If I try to boot from the cf the system just hangs and doesn't get to > the 'SYSLINUX.......' line. I'd be grateful for any ideas, please! > I've also had some CF cards that are missing a valid Master Boot Record. The hdsupp.lrp package has an MBR from syslinux, it can be copied to the CF card with a dd. Assuming the cf card is /dev/hda:
dd if=/usr/bin/mbr.bin of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 Depending on the version of hdsupp.lrp, mbr.bin may be in /usr/sbin also. Corey -- Corey Betka ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
