Problem booting new CF card

[Tod Merley]

On 9/10/06, Phil Meyer <pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com> wrote:
> For temperature, silence, and other conditions, a Compact Flash card is
> often used with mini-ATX boards to boot the OS and run the apps from.
>
> On these types of motherboards, the CF card shows up as /dev/hdc
> (typically).
>
> A recent purchase of CF cards however, have been problematic.
> Kingston elite pro 2GB 50X CF/2GB-S
>
> These cards are visible and usable to a desktop system running FC5.  No
> problem there.  Partitioning, mkfs, and data transfers all were normal
> on the desktop box using a USB based card reader.
>
> However, when placed in a system as /dev/hdc and booted, the system
> hangs when it first tries to read the partition table from the drive.
> Normal operation prints an indented line with the partitions it finds
> just after it prints the drive parameters.  ie:
>  hdc: hdc1, hdc2, hdc3
>
> With these cards, we get:
>  hdc:
>
> And the system is hard hung.  This has been tried with the original and
> respin boot CDs.
>
> The fly in the ointment?  KNOPPIX 2.6 kernels boot just fine.  And no,
> this project cannot easily migrate to KNOPPIX. :)
>
> What am I missing?  Other CF cards this size have worked in the past.
> An old working CF card was booted in this system just to make sure that
> the problem is with the new cards.
>
> Stumped ...
>
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Hi Phil Meyer!

My first guess is that you are not forming the MBR of the CF card in
any way that will make it a boot device.

Good Hunting!

Tod