Subj : Re: Determining geometry of Compact Flash
To   : comp.os.linux.embedded, comp.os.linux, programmer
From : Jean-Marc M
Date : Wed Dec 15 2004 06:32 am

Kevin,

I'm not sure I understand your exact problem, however it sounds
familliar to some of the problem I have encountered (if I am wrong
accept my apologies).

When you prepare you cf-disk from /dev/sda it comes to be invalid when
you try to boot with weird messages such as L 01 01 01 01 ... or L 04
04 04 04 ... ?

I faced the same issue and finally opted to use grub as boot-loader
rather than lilo. I have to admit my lazyness not to spend more time
and figure out what the exact problem was nor the reason of such ...
let say behavior. The moment I switched to grub it has run like a
charm. I suspected at that time as you said that the geometry lilo use
when installing is quite different that the one that will be reported
and used at boot time.

If that is not a big problem in you scenario and if that solve the
issue, you might consider using grub which does not require a
re-install each time you rebuild a kernel a tremendous advantage IMHO
for embedded systems.

Hope this helps
Regards
JM

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