On 23/01/12 22:37, Michael Lange wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I could hardly believe it myself, but I actually got it working now,
Glad to hear it, and congratulations!
(CF boot space, the final frontier?)
If you wanted to boot different CF cards you could possible compile
those modules as GRUB modu
Hi again,
I could hardly believe it myself, but I actually got it working now,
finally the patch from the Puppy linux forum did it!
It took me a while to figure out how to use it; because of my
limited shell scripting capabilities I had to remove the smart automagic
that checks for all available
On 22/01/12 23:51, Michael Lange wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson
> unto us on Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:03:25 +1100:
>
>
>> What is the output from:-
>> grub> lsmod
>
> More than fits on the screen, is there something particular I should look
> for?
Sorry, I overlooked that:-
grub>
On 22/01/12 23:51, Michael Lange wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson
> unto us on Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:03:25 +1100:
>
> (...)
>>
>> Your laptop [*1] doesn't appear to have BIOS support for booting from
>> the CF card.
>> Having had the time to do a little Googling (about 10 minutes) the
On Sun 22 Jan 2012 at 13:51:11 +0100, Michael Lange wrote:
> Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson
> unto us on Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:03:25 +1100:
>
> (...)
> >
> > Your laptop [*1] doesn't appear to have BIOS support for booting from
> > the CF card.
> > Having had the time to do a little Googling (about
On 22/01/12 12:51, Michael Lange wrote:
Hi,
Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson
unto us on Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:03:25 +1100:
(...)
Your laptop [*1] doesn't appear to have BIOS support for booting from
the CF card.
Having had the time to do a little Googling (about 10 minutes) there are
three possible
Hi,
Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson
unto us on Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:03:25 +1100:
(...)
>
> Your laptop [*1] doesn't appear to have BIOS support for booting from
> the CF card.
> Having had the time to do a little Googling (about 10 minutes) there are
> three possible routes (maybe more).
> 1. Boot
On 20/01/12 20:59, Michael Lange wrote:
> Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson
> unto us on Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:47:38 +1100:
>
>> On 20/01/12 20:19, Michael Lange wrote:
> (...)
>>
>
> That is interesting, I didn't know that, but how does grub then know about
> the device when the BIOS doesn't?
In
Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson
unto us on Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:47:38 +1100:
> On 20/01/12 20:19, Michael Lange wrote:
(...)
> >
> > I wrote that the the BIOS doesn't know about the CF card, so I
> > thought it is obvious that grub won't know about it either ;)
>
> That's incorrect - the BIOS doesn
On 20/01/12 20:19, Michael Lange wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thus spoketh Brian
> unto us on Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:01:56 +:
>
>> On Thu 19 Jan 2012 at 20:52:23 +0100, Michael Lange wrote:
>>
>>> So I think what i would need is a way to start at least one of these
>>> hotplug events, the one that install
Hi,
Thus spoketh Brian
unto us on Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:01:56 +:
> On Thu 19 Jan 2012 at 20:52:23 +0100, Michael Lange wrote:
>
> > So I think what i would need is a way to start at least one of these
> > hotplug events, the one that installs the CF card, from within the
> > initrd, *before*
On Thu 19 Jan 2012 at 20:52:23 +0100, Michael Lange wrote:
> So I think what i would need is a way to start at least one of these
> hotplug events, the one that installs the CF card, from within the
> initrd, *before* it tries to mount / from a device which has not yet been
> initialized.
You did
Hi,
Thus spoketh Brian
unto us on Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:25:35 +:
(...)
>
> The UUID on the 'search' line should be that of the partition on the CF
> card which holds the kernel and the initrd. The line can omitted, as can
> the 'set root' line. The 'linux' and 'initrd' lines are required.
N
On Wed 18 Jan 2012 at 11:15:14 +0100, Michael Lange wrote:
> the grub.cfg entry:
>
> menuentry 'CFcard' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class
> os { insmod part_msdos
>insmod ext2
>set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
>search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 7329bb28-71ea-4060-96a1-accae
Hi,
Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson
unto us on Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:10:40 +1100:
(...)
>
> set root='(hd1,msdos1)'
>
> hd0 is the first hard drive (where /boot lives)
I think root=(...) should not point to / but to grub's root, at least the
page you linked suggests this:
"GRUB uses GRUB's root de
On 18/01/12 21:15, Michael Lange wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks for the reply.
>
> Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson
> unto us on Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:23:35 +1100:
>
>>
>> At the grub prompt hit 'e' to enter edit mode.
>> What where does GRUB expect the root to be? (should not be hd0, probably
>> should be
Hi,
thanks for the reply.
Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson
unto us on Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:23:35 +1100:
>
> At the grub prompt hit 'e' to enter edit mode.
> What where does GRUB expect the root to be? (should not be hd0, probably
> should be hd1,1).
the grub.cfg entry:
menuentry 'CFcard' --class
On 18/01/12 07:08, Michael Lange wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I already tried it somewhere else, but as no one knew help, I hope it
> is ok to bother you, too ;)
>
> I am trying to boot my Dell Latitude X1 netbook into a CompactFlash card.
> The system is debian squeeze.
> The card is inserted into
Hi everyone,
I already tried it somewhere else, but as no one knew help, I hope it
is ok to bother you, too ;)
I am trying to boot my Dell Latitude X1 netbook into a CompactFlash card.
The system is debian squeeze.
The card is inserted into the netbook's built-in CF card slot, which
apparently is
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