Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] DL on compact flash

[Tim T. <t....@co...>]

Heiko Zuerker wrote:

> Martin Hotze wrote:
>
>> At 7:29 Uhr -0400 02.08.2004, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Hey Martin,
>>>   
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>  
>>
>>>> after reading several posts to the list I tried to install DL ona 
>>>> compact
>>>> flash card (cf card) - knowing that this is not officially supported.
>>>>     
>>>
>> (...)
>>  
>>
>>>> it runs through everything, it also boots up, but while 
>>>> loading/searching
>>>> the iso image it is searching for a CD-ROM drive and fails.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>
>>> The DL boot process is searching for 2 files: DEVIL-LINUX and 
>>> bootcd.iso
>>> in the root of the partition.
>>> I selected grub as boot loader and cramfs (very important!!!) as the
>>> initrd filesystem.
>>> My partitions are formated with ext2. I have my config on a USB device.
>>>
>>> Can you try it with the setup I'm using? If it works that way then
>>> there's probably an issue with the syslinux/fat part of the
>>> install-on-usb script.
>>>   
>>
>>
>>
>> did it, same result:
>>
>> this is what's on the screen:
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> "would you like to probe for SCSI controllers now? N
>>
>> searching for Devil-Linux CD-ROM
>> search list:
>> checking /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/port1 media found
>> Found ISO (1.2b2) on /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1
>> loading configuration
>> searching for Devil-Linux CD-ROM
>> search list:
>> checking /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1 mount failed
>> checking /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part2 wrong media
>> !!!Devil-Linux CD-ROM not found!!!
>>
>> Please check your Hardware!
>> Booting will not continue you have to reset to try again
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>  
>>
> What happens when you let the system reboot? Does it get up then?
> I think I recall a problem like this, the system doesn't boot  when 
> you start with an empty config media.
>
> Just give it a try with a pre-configured system, it can be the 
> standard DL etc.tar.bz2
>
> Heiko 

I had a problem with a blank config media hanging the boot too... I 
chocked it up to my messing around with the scripts on my machine, but 
maybe it's in the released code too.

Tim