Re: Booting minimal debian off of IBM Microdrive
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:50:15 +0200, Andreas Loong wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Trying to get a minimal install of debian to boot here.
> The installation goes fine, partitioning and so on goes fine.
> However, trying to boot yields some problems.
>
> My setup is a ASUS P4P800-VM motherboard, 512MB ram and a CF2IDE adapter.
> (CF and IDE is pin compatible, so no drivers are required) When tryint to
> boot directly off of the Microdrive, it halts. It's like it doesn't get
> detected, yet the bios detects the card correctly. All I get is "insert
> correct medium and press any key" so something goes very wrong. Am I
> missing something here?
Are you sure the bootloader is installed correctly on the microdrive?
Is the BIOS set up to boot from hd?
Does it print the same error message when you remove the microdrive(but
keep the adapter connected)?
>
> I can boot fine if I boot off of CDROM and set root=/dev/hda which is the
> Microdrive. So why doesn't it work to boot directly from the CF drive, and
> more importantly, how can I search for errors?
copy the content of the bootable microdrive to a image file(dd) and try to
boot the system using bochs(a X86 PC simulator). If it starts correctly,
it is a problem with the bios or the cf2ide adapter.
>
> Wbr
> Andreas Loong
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