Booting from compact flash (a question of LILO)

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From: Religious Sect
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:16

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Hi y'all

I'm trying to boot from a compact flash card which is connected to my
standard IDE controller (with a IDE to CF converter).  But I'm not having
much luck.

I currently boot from a standard harddrive (hda).  Meanwhile the CF card is
connected as hdc.  Everything works sweet.  I can mount hdc1 and hdc2 and
everyone is happy.

So I run:
lilo -C lilo.flash
cp /boot/* /mnt/flash/boot/

lilo.flash:
--------------------------------
boot=/dev/hdc
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
linear
read-only
root=/dev/hdc2
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18
--------------------------------

Which should install MBR and booting stuff on the CF card.

But when I try to boot from the CF card all i get is:

L 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 (etc)

This means the first stage is loaded, but no more.

Have I forgotten something?

Steve

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