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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2001-01-07 15:38 offtopic request Nicholas Mc Guire
2001-01-07 15:57 ` dant [this message]
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