Re: [leaf-user] 5.01 booting using grub

2013-10-08 Thread Erich Titl
Hi folks still struggling with the device node for /dev/sda2 the sd_mod, scsi and pata_sc1200 moduules are loaded and show LINUXRC: Loading modules... LINUXRC: 157 Calling modprobe vfat [8.811435] SCSI subsystem initialized [9.433344] scsi0 : pata_sc1200 [9.560356] scsi1 : pata_sc120

Re: [leaf-user] 5.01 booting using grub

2013-10-08 Thread Erich Titl
Hi Folks some more info, still trying to bring a WRAP to boot Bering 5.01 The first hurdle appears to be a bigger CF. I was using a 4G CF, which used to be a decent CF a few years ago, no dice. Copying my complete test to partition #2 on a 32 MB CF got me ahead. The partition could be mounted a

[leaf-user] 5.01 booting on WRAP SOLVED

2013-10-08 Thread Erich Titl
Hi For all of you suffering booting problems on WRAP using big CF cards, here is the solution (at least for me). The driver cannot handle fast ATA IO modes, you have to restrict to some PIO mode, I have not tested with UDMA though :-( Pass a kernel parameter on boot like libata.force=1.00:pio3

Re: [leaf-user] 5.01 booting using grub

2013-10-08 Thread KP Kirchdörfer
Hi Erich; Am Dienstag, 8. Oktober 2013, 18:46:22 schrieb Erich Titl: > Hi Folks > > some more info, still trying to bring a WRAP to boot Bering 5.01 > > The first hurdle appears to be a bigger CF. I was using a 4G CF, which > used to be a decent CF a few years ago, no dice. > > Copying my comp

Re: [leaf-user] 5.01 booting on WRAP SOLVED

2013-10-08 Thread KP Kirchdörfer
Hi Erich, mails crossed. Good you've got it working, and hopefully your experience with 5.0.1 will better from now on. I know it can cause a lot of pain being the first one dealing with updates and changes. David did a great job last year improving user experience at least with documentation

Re: [leaf-user] 5.01 booting on WRAP SOLVED

2013-10-08 Thread Erich Titl
Hi KP on 08.10.2013 19:57, KP Kirchdörfer wrote: ... > > I assume your findings may belong to 4.x as well - a bigger CF may always > show > the pb's you've seen. It is not necessarily the size, but the speed that goes along. Typically bigger/newer CF's have higher throughput. For cheap impleme

Re: [leaf-user] 5.01 booting on WRAP SOLVED

2013-10-08 Thread Dillabough, Dave
I have also found this to be the case with 4.0 and later versions and switched to booting from USB as a long term solution. Finding compatible CF cards was very hit and miss. Even buying the same brand and model did not alway guarentee compatibility. I tried various boot options and PIO modes