Re: embedded motherboard boot from flash

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Date: 04/26/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 11:42:52 +0000

It boots from an normal IDE Hard-Drive OK, i.e. I've booted from a Seagate ST32140A, but
I can't get it to boot from Compact Flash.

The Compact Flash adaptor bears the label CFDISK.1C IDE/CompactFlash Adaptor. No Hot
Swap, Copyright 2002 PC Engines. I have tried both Sandisk 16Mb and a Lexar 8Mb flash.

If the CF card is in the secondary IDE channel, then the boot just freezes after
outputting some BIOS info - the COM port addresses etc.

If the CF card is on the primary IDE channel, then it gets further, but then says "PRESS
A KEY TO REBOOT" or "DISK BOOT FAILURE. INSERT A SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER." depending
on which CF card is there.

I've not tried putting the adaptor card on another PC and attempting to boot that - maybe
I should.

I'll try that now.

Tech Support for IDE-CF wrote:

> noreply@noreply.org wrote in message news:<408BF61B.C859AEB6@noreply.org>...
> > PCM-4825 doesn't
>
> They claim to have IDE interface onboard. Does it boot with normal hard disk?
> Are they having non-standard IDE interface?
>
> >
> > Tech Support for IDE-CF wrote:
> >
> > > Leo Chen <lcheu@cs.sfu.ca> wrote in message news:<c6c6jr$j69$1@morgoth.sfu.ca>...
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I am a newbie here. I am involved in a project of developing a POS
> > > > system using embedded Linux.
> > > >
> > > > Can someone recommend a PC compatible motherboard which is able to boot
> > > > from compact flash? Or give me some pointers will be helpful as well.
> > >
> > > Almost all PC motherboards can boot from Compact Flash Drives.
> > >
> > > See http://ide-cf.info-for.us
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks a lot.

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