On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:00:01PM -0400, Chris Zakelj wrote: > Rod.. Whitworth wrote: > > I have a 4801 with CF installed with 3.9 in exactly the manner I would > > install on a HDD. > > > Rod, tried to email you off-list, but it seems my ISP is relaying > through a Chinese server that's on your blacklist. Anyways, what > special sauce are you using to install to CF? Any time I've tried it > using my IDE-CF adapter, the install seems to go cleanly (including > fdisk/disklabel), but when the time comes to boot off the CF card (Lexar > 512M), I'm stuck with 'ERR R', suggesting something is happening to the > translation. I'm discounting (perhaps incorrectly) the possibility of a > read error since it's happened with three different cards. >
I use a USB for CF cards which shows up as sd0. You probably should look at installboot(8). My procedure is as follows: fdisk -u sd0 fdisk -e sd0 disklabel -E sd0 newfs /dev/rsd0a mount /dev/sd0a /mnt tar zxvpf (each set individually) vi /mnt/etc/myname vi /mnt/etc/hostname.$if (create /etc/boot.conf) cd /mnt/dev ./MAKEDEV all chroot /mnt passwd root cd /etc ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific localtime cp /usr/mdec/boot / /usr/mdec/installboot -v /boot /usr/mdec/biosboot sd0 (create or copy /etc/fstab) vi /etc/ttys (for serial console) exit umount /mnt This works without any issues in my experience. My guess is you are not doing fdisk -u or the installboot(8) process. Bryan
