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From: dant@softhome.net
To: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
Cc: mtd@infradead.org
Subject: Re: offtopic request
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 10:57:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A5891FC.881D5139@softhome.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200101071538.IAA22014@nis.hofr.at

Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:

> Hi !
>
>  I have a question about ide-compatible flash-cards.
>  The one is a KINMAX KCF008M which works fine and the second
>  is a SanDisk SDCFB , both officially 8MB..., the second card
>  can be mounted formated writen too but I can't get it to boot
>  from that card , I only get
>
> 01 01 01 01 01 01 ....

If memory serves (and if your attempting to use lilo ) this would be a disk
geometry error generated by lilo itself. Maybe you could pass the disk geometry
to lilo?

>
>  on the screen at boot-up.
>
>  Now can anybody point out why one is bootable and the other not ? and how
>  can one tell which one will be bootable and which one will not ? Both are
>  detected in the BIOS without any problem (one as (CHS) 250/4/16 the other as
>  (CHS) 245/2/32).
>
> thx !
> hofrat
>
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      reply	other threads:[~2001-01-07 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-07 15:38 offtopic request Nicholas Mc Guire
2001-01-07 15:57 ` dant [this message]

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