Philippe Lamalice wrote:
> I don't have much experience with the Net45xx (or any Soekris product 
> for that matter). But i've had some CF trouble on a WRAP platform. 
> Turns out the PC i was writing the image from was not detecting the 
> drive geometry properly. (C/H/S). And the WRAP couldn't read the CF 
> properly.
>
> Can't say this is your problem but you might want to manually specify 
> the CHS in your BIOS.
>
> James W. McKeand wrote:
>> Troels Månsson Kaspersen wrote:
>>  
>>> The output from Soekris says:
>>>
>>> comBIOS ver. 1.29  20070204  Copyright (C) 2000-2005 Soekris
>>> Engineering.
>>> net45xx
>>>
>>> 0064 Mbyte Memory                        CPU 80486 133 Mhz
>>>
>>> Pri Mas  SanDisk SDCFB-16                LBA 490-2-32  15 Mbyte
>>>
>>> Slot   Vend Dev  ClassRev Cmd  Stat CL LT HT  Base1    Base2   Int
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 0:00:0 1022 3000 06000000 0006 2280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000
>>> 0:18:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E001 A0000000 10
>>> 0:19:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E101 A0001000 11
>>> 0:20:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E201 A0002000 05
>>>
>>>  1 Seconds to automatic boot.   Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor.
>>> Boot error
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> I have seen this before with my net4501's when I have flashed them to 
>> ComBIOS version 1.29.
>>
>> Enter into the comBIOS by hitting Ctrl-P. Type "show" and take a look 
>> at "BootDrive".
>> If it is not "80 81 F0 FF" type "Set BootDrive = 80 81 F0 FF" (That 
>> is eighty, eighty one, F zero, FF) and reboot (just type reboot)
>>
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Maybe that could be it!

I've tried inspect the CF card after writing the image with fdisk, and 
it reports different problems.

Something about differences between logical and physical sectors on the 
CF card and some issue with the partition in BSD mode (fdisk on a ubuntu 
linux distribution).

BUT I'm doing this from a laptop using an external cardwriter (HP 
printer with internal writer). So I have to the best of my nowledge no 
option of specifying  geometry  of  CF card in my bios.

Regarding geometry:
1. how do I find out what the CF cards geometry is?
2. what "system" is it that has to now this geomery? My computer - so it 
writes the CF card correctly?
3. has anybody used external flashcard writers to write the cards on a 
linux based system? And which? Maybe it's the "writer" that causes the 
problem...


- and an off topic note: it's fantastic how people help each other out - 
thanx!