Re: [Soekris] CF boot problem

2009-01-20 Thread Tamas Vincze
Follow-up: It doesn't work after power-cycling the box; behaves just like with the FLASH=Primary setting. Time to get a CF-to-IDE adapter... Thanks Steve for the idea! Tamas > Hi Darrick, > > Thanks for the tip! Setting FLASH=Secondary in comBIOS solved the > problem! > (I've already tried this

Re: [Soekris] CF boot problem

2009-01-19 Thread Tamas Vincze
Hi Darrick, Thanks for the tip! Setting FLASH=Secondary in comBIOS solved the problem! (I've already tried this setting with the original comBIOS 1.33 but it didn't help at that time so I gave up on this.) Now the CF card is _immediately_ detected as: Pri Mas TRANSCEND LBA

Re: [Soekris] CF boot problem

2009-01-19 Thread Steve Clark
Tamas Vincze wrote: > Hi, > > I purchased a 2GB Transcend CF card (TS2GCF266) for use with net5501 > and copied one of the EMBCop images to it. > comBIOS 1.33 hasn't recognized the card, but after flashing it to > 1.33c the card showed up. However GRUB won't auto-boot: it always > goes to the grub

Re: [Soekris] CF boot problem

2009-01-19 Thread Darrick Hartman
Tamas, I've used the Transcend cards, but on most of the Soekris net5501 systems, the cards show up most of the time as Secondary Master. That doesn't bother me as the boot system I'm using doesn't care where the drive is, but I could see how grub could be confused (especially if it changes a

[Soekris] CF boot problem

2009-01-19 Thread Tamas Vincze
Hi, I purchased a 2GB Transcend CF card (TS2GCF266) for use with net5501 and copied one of the EMBCop images to it. comBIOS 1.33 hasn't recognized the card, but after flashing it to 1.33c the card showed up. However GRUB won't auto-boot: it always goes to the grub> prompt, although grub.conf has t