Re: no boot?

I was recently told that on newer bootldr's the VFAT
partition has to be, iirc, 16MB or larger.

You should easily find the thread in the archives
a month or two back.

According to Harmon Seaver,
> Just trying to install intimate on my ipaq. Created the 10meg FAT16 partition
> on /dev/hda (a 512meg CF), and the rest a linux (ext3) partition, both
> primary. Made a msdos filesystem on hda1, made a /boot dir, and put
> initrd,params, and zimage on from the initmate.handhelds.org/install dir.
> It doesn't boot. I reboot from familiar and hit the "boot hdd/vfat/cf" button,
> the screen goes gray and stays that way.
> Next I tried the initrd from intimate.handhelds.org/h3800 since that has a bit
> later date and larger size, although mine is a 3765. Same thing -- no boot.
>
>
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Received on Thu Sep 18 2003 - 05:34:15 EDT