Hi Robin, for the really desperate there is yet another escape, which I've tried with floppies with success, but never with a CF card:
- dd a kernel onto the boot device starting at sector 0 - dd an initrd image right after it using the seek or skip option (this involes keeping track of the kernel size in sectors!) - set the root device offset in the kernel with rdev(8). From the manual: "Its use is strongly discouraged. Use a boot loader like SysLinux or LILO instead." But those aren't available, are they?. Agreed, it's dirty, hackish. low-level stuff, and you'll have to figure out the details yourself, but in your case it may be just the tool you need. I'm not even sure if the Soekris comBIOS will be able to load the Linux kernel just like that (with floppies + a PC it always worked). If it does, and if you use the Debian Installer image as the initrd image, you should be able to install Debian GNU/Linux as if nothing weird had ever happened;). Bill On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 21:04 +0100, Robin Kipp wrote: > Hi Bill, > Good idea... The only problem is I don't have a Linux system I could use > to copy Debian on the CF card :-( > Robin > > > -- Debian Package Management System: The Horror. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
