Re: Booting from VFAT

Hi, William.

If you go back in the archives a coupld weeks, you'll find a
thread where I suggested a correction to the install
instructions and the author kindly responded with an
additional tip that the FAT partition now needs to be larger
than 16M (the bootloader apparently requires that).

I have a similar setup to you, except my drive is a toshiba
pcmcia drive (i.e. no pcmcia/ide adapter).

Another thing to check is the pcmcia subsystem. Do you
have some other vfat media you can try to work with? In my
case, I used a CF card before I got the hard drive.

Tony

According to William D. Carroll,
> Hi,
>
> This is my first post here and of course it's for HELP.
>
> I've been messing around for days now trying to get Intimate to boot from a VFAT partition like the instructions say in the link on the News section.
> I partitioned my drive (850mb travelstar attached via a IBM PCMCIA/IDE card) following the instruction for
> part 1 10Mb Type 6 Fat16
> part 2 The rest Type 82 Linux
>
> I did the
> mkdosfs /dev/hde1 for part1 and
> mkfs.ext3 -j /dev/hde2
>
> copied the zimage,initrd and params to /mnt/hde1/boot
>
> then reboot the ipaq (a 3650) and select the Boot VFAT/CF option
>
> not matter what I do I can not get it to boot.
> it fails when trying to read the zimage with a read zimage failed rc=FFFFFFFE
>
> if I take and format a 128mb CF card and put the same files in a boot directory on it it loads successfully and all is good except the configuration is not what I need.
>
> I've not seen any errors about long file names. it also doesn't look like it's reading the params file as it' goes to look for zImage not zimage.
>
> has anyone had similar problems and maybe can offer a solution?
>
> TIA
>
> Doug

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Received on Mon Aug 11 2003 - 07:41:29 EDT