Hi there,
what I want to do is to boot my linux from a root device on an compact flash card. My target device does not boot from the compact flash card, strangly it is detected as an ide slave, although I configured the jumper on my ide - cf adapter card properly. Anyway my target device has a flash disk on board, which can boot. A linux kernel and loadlin.exe fit there, so I thought I try it that way. Now I have problems when chosing the compact flash card as a root device, the kernel mounts the ext2 partition I created there and then fails with "cannot create initial console". Another way would be to boot a initrd image from within the compact flash card, but I don't know how to acomplish that. Maybe I put an initrd image on the booting flash disk which then mounts the image on the compact flash card, which then becomes root. Any Ideas?
By the way, I can access the compact flash card through a linux rescue disk. The compact flash card is not recogniced under dos/freedos.
Any sugestions would be highly appreachiated. Thanks!