David,

I googled 'boot linux from compact flash' and got 831,000 results.

I looked at a couple, for example 

www.linuxjournal.com/article/4551

which seemed to give a pretty good explanation of how to boot linux from
a CF card.  Several people have done this, I think one of the guy's in
the CAMS CNC group did it with EMC2 but I am not sure, the memory may be
playing tricks on me today.

I hope this helps.

John Guenther
'Ye Olde Pen Maker'
Sterling, VIrginia


On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 15:34 +0000, David Winter wrote:
> Dear All,
>                Anyone used a CF card as a hard drive?   I thought I read 
> here that someone has done it
> but I searched the wiki and didn't find anything.   I have a card and 
> adapter which I have partitioned
> with fdisk and formatted using   format c: /s   (  DOS  )   but my PC 
> won't boot from it.   All help and
> advice gratefully received.  BTW,    I have  no idea how to set my BIOS 
> for this card, which is a
> 8 GB  Kingston  133x  card.    I don't know if it needs  CHS,, LBA,  
> Large  ,   what sort of UDMA
> access, etc.
> 
>                                                                 Thanks 
> in advance,
> 
>                                                                 David 
> Winter.
> P.S.  Thanks to everyone who contribute to EMC2, only wish I was smart 
> enough to contribute :-(
> 
> 
> 
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