Hi all I want to create my own embedded Linux. I want to use CF to boot. when I mount my CF in other Linux , linux determines it as "sda1" but when I copy necessary files on it and run lilo and make it bootable I can't boot thorogh it! (before lilo starts to work , Bios says that "Boot failed" , or Please put bootable disk blah blah...) I test this CF on several mainbaords and I got the same result I don't know what is wrong
Are you sure that the BIOS can boot from this CF slot ?
Maybe the CF is considered as a removable disk and not as a standard ISA drive and thus the BIOS does not boot it. (The hardware of a CF card can be accessed in either way. ISA compatible mode or CF mode).
I suppose you did write a boot record on the appropriate partition ?
-Michael
either the mainboard has to have support to boot off CF, or you need an interface that emulates an IDE drive.
Are you using a USB adapter? You might want to switch to an IDE adapter. See
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Almost all PC can boot from CF in IDE mode.
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