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Re: ext2 bootable compact flash
From: |
Dave Cinege |
Subject: |
Re: ext2 bootable compact flash |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:37:30 -0500 |
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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