Re: U5 boot from CompactFlash?
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Dieter Jurzitza wrote:
> Hi Antonio,
> this will always fail (IMHO). To boot from a device makes it neccessary that
> OpenBoot knows about it - I highly doubt this for your CF-card adapter. You
> can only boot from devices that are known to your OB - that's why I boot my
> U60 from a cdrom / Network because the harddisk hangs on the 29160 adapter
> which is not accessible prior to loading the kernel.
> Take care
>
You might well be correct. Still it would be nice if it did work.
On the othe hand, from the OB, the command probe-ide has no problems in
recognising the CF including size.
So hope is not great, but I'll experiment further...
Saluti,
Antonio Prioglio
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