On Nov 24, 2007 4:05 PM, Serge van Ginderachter
<serge at vanginderachter dot be> wrote:
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> Hi ,
>
>
> I'm testing to get monowall up and running on a plain PC, with some memory card. Ideally, I'd use
a CF to IDE converter, and plug it in on the primary IDE port.
>
> Problem is, such converters are not easily found around here, and are relatively expensive. Easily
3x the price of some USB card reader. But putting the image on a flash card on a USB card reader,
doesn't boot, as the filesystem cannot be mounted, and the config file not  be read. I suppose the
boot code does not expect the root partition to be found behind an USB device.
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> My question:
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> - Is this to be expected with the latest stable image (1.23)?
> - Is there a workaround? Maybe in an upcoming release?
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> Thanks,
>
>
>         Serge
>
> Serge van Ginderachter          http://www.vanginderachter.be/

Serge,

As I've seen your name in Bcol I know we're from the same country ;-)
I've got quite a lot of m0n0's running, and used to use those CF adapters too.
But the (cheap, through e-bay from hong kong) CF adapters were
sometimes giving you trouble.
So nowadays, as I need stable systems,  I always go for ide flash
modules from transcend.
Like these: http://shop.transcend.nl/product/ItemDetail.asp?ItemID=TS32MDOM40V
Never had trouble with them ;-)
If you should need more information don't hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards,
Yves