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* offtopic request
@ 2001-01-07 15:38 Nicholas Mc Guire
  2001-01-07 15:57 ` dant
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Nicholas Mc Guire @ 2001-01-07 15:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mtd


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 ....

 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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* Re: offtopic request
  2001-01-07 15:38 offtopic request Nicholas Mc Guire
@ 2001-01-07 15:57 ` dant
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: dant @ 2001-01-07 15:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Nicholas Mc Guire; +Cc: mtd

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
>
> To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe mtd" to majordomo@infradead.org



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