Re: Create Bootable CF card
From: linnix (me_at_linnix.info-for.us)
Date: 01/19/05
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Date: 19 Jan 2005 08:04:25 -0800
Al Dykes wrote:
> In article <pLkHd.162874$AL5.32190@twister.nyroc.rr.com>,
> Charles Tryon <chucktryon@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >This may seem backwards, but is there a way to make a bootable CF
> >(Compact Flash) card with DOS, from a Linux box? I need to be able
to
> >boot DOS from CF, but I don't have a Windows computer that has the
> >capability to read/write the CF memory card.
> >
> >(Long term, this is to hack an old Compaq IA-1 computer, and be able
to
> >boot to DOS, so I can run the DOS based tools to flash the internal
> >memory with a Linux image.)
> >
> >If all else fails, I'll have to borrow a USB based CF reader, but
I'm
> >trying to get around this.
> >
> >--
> > Chuck Tryon
>
>
> The "pebble" linux distro shows how to make a CF card bootable and
has
> linux scripts to install a small Linux distro on a card. I've done
> it. On my systems I was never able to write a valid file system to a
> USB fob. It seemed to work but an fsck would be very unbappy. WIth a
> PCMCIA adapter it works fine, with the same CF card.
It's not enough to create just a FFS file system. You need to write
the
FFS boot files as well. You have to do it from another drive running
FFS and sys into the new drive. By the way, the FFS software knows
nothing about USB or PCMCIA, you have to do it with a 32M Flash Drive.
IA2 (perhaps for IA1) will not boot with anything smaller or bigger.
>
> http://www.nycwireless.net/pebble/
>
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>
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