Re: ext2 bootable compact flash

[Dave Cinege]

On Friday 21 December 2001 5:09, John P. Looney wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 06:31:55PM -0500, Dave Cinege mentioned:
> > > My question is, will this be a much easier task using grub?
> >
> > Grub should work much better for you but I've yet to use it on
> > CF. (When I get my CF adapter in I'll be trying it.)
>
>  I tried for a week, and gave up. I went back to LILO, and nearly have it.
> I have it to the stage where LILO does actually print "LI". Which is a lot
> further than I ever got with grub ("Grub hard disk error").

This sounds like a screwy BIOS, not nessasarily related to using CF.
Have you (or Phil) tried Syslinux, to see if it will boot a kernel?

In my experience syslinux seems to deal with BIOS oddness the best
of all the bootloaders.

Dave

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