Re: Booting from VFAT

Hi

I went and tried this and no luck but it did bring something to my
attention.
I don't see the IDE Drive being identified. My CF card that shows up and
works get identified but the
IBM Travelstar using the IDE PCMCIA Adapter doesn't ever get identified by
the bootldr. not good for me

Doug
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Godshall" <togo_at_of.net>
To: "William D. Carroll" <voxr_at_comcast.net>
Cc: <intimate_at_handhelds.org>
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 2:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Intimate] 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 Tue Aug 12 2003 - 00:08:02 EDT