Hello Cpu,
For non-CF booting, USB also works,
but it's a matter of loading the correct modules and a few other
things. I don't remember how I did this honestly. Can someone else help?
There is an initrd_usb package available for USB booting, that one contains all
the needed modules.
Eric
I now have everything fixed and happy.
Cpu,
What process do you use to set up your Lex systems? Have you been able
to get USB support or boot off of USB to work? The only thing that has
consistently worked for me is booting off of an IDE CDROM. This is great
and fast in the lab, but not a great
I boot from the CF on the IDE controller. Haven't tried booting from
USB except into DOS, which works fine on the CV863A, but I believe I
had problems on the CV860A. Nonetheless, if you setup your CF as an HD
(connected to the CF connector on the motherboard, or IDE/CF
converter), it should work
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We use with no issue CF cards on my systems that are neo similar to the
system.
We've used only sandisk cards ( both 32 M / 64 M depending on
avaliability at the stores) plus a 8 M card from a Canon digital camera.
We use bering 1.0-stable with a
Is anyone running CF with absolutely no issues??
Hi Bob,
I am running one Bering 1.2 and two Berings uClibc 2.2.3 on
Soekris 4801 and pcengines' WRAP platforms with some different
almost-noname flashes. I never had any problems, but the very first
time:
Namely, fully determined to do it
Auto, LBA, or CHS?
Consider this:
- Your controller is setup for Auto
- Your CF is detected as LBA
(even though it's = 512MB, all CFs are supposed to support LBA, my
understanding)
- Next day, your BIOS is having a bad-hair-day, CF is now detected as
CHS
(but you don't notice the boot message!
Hi Richard.
A couple of weeks ago I got a small file 'leaf.cfg' corrupted after
modifying it directly (mount /hda1 on /mnt). As other folks here said that I
may forget to un-mount /mnt before rebooting. So now I always checked to
make sure the CF is umounted before rebooting and so far no
M Lu,
Thanks for the info, you may have just found my issue. I have regularly
been mounting my CF on a folder I create each time (/cf) so that I can
edit things like leaf.cfg and others. I never unmount it before
rebooting (did not know I needed to)!
Do you have your setup now configured to auto
Hello Richard,
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Soon after I made a new folder called lrpbackup on the CF card. It shows
up though as lrpbacku
That's because only 'short' (8.3) names are allowed.
snip
Also when I now try to write to the CF card in this machine, everything
returns:
Cannot create directory `lrpb': Read-only
I get the sense that all the grief I see people have with CF cards just
isn't worth it. I'm only using old junky IDE drives (500MB to 4GB in size)
to boot my shorewall systems. If one were to fail (I know they will at some
point) I'll merely format a 100MB partition on another drive, syslinux it
: [leaf-user] CF Card Issues
M Lu,
Thanks for the info, you may have just found my issue. I have regularly
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I just backed up all the files off that CF card, did a scandisk and it
looks like it fixed everything.
I now changed my /etc/init.d/reboot to umount my CF card before
rebooting.
Though I will plan on always unmounting the CF card when I do not need
it.
Richard
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From:
Eric Spakman wrote:
It's a general 'issue' with linux and unix, if you write something to your
storage media it's not directly written but buffered for some time. If you
remove the media or reboot before doing a sync or umount, data can get corrupt.
The lrcfg script umounts after a backup, but
Bob wrote:
I get the sense that all the grief I see people have with CF cards
just isn't worth it. ... Is anyone running CF with absolutely no
issues??
I recently migrated my Leaf ucLibc with three-interface shorewall to
a Soekris 4801. I used a 512MB compact flash that came with a Canon
Richard Amerman wrote:
I just backed up all the files off that CF card, did a scandisk and it
looks like it fixed everything.
I now changed my /etc/init.d/reboot to umount my CF card before
rebooting.
Though I will plan on always unmounting the CF card when I do not need
it.
Richard
: Re: [leaf-user] CF Card Issues
I umount and remove the modules that allow the CF to be mounted. This
way there are only two ways to remount. 1. Reboot. 2. Bring the
moules in over the wire and insmod them so that the CF can be mounted.
I have a little lrp that loads the scripts to remove
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