Syslinux - Dec 2003 - Problems booting from CF

Hi everybody,
 
It's my first time asking something here. I've a 128 MB Compact Flash
and I tried to boot up a Linux mini distro from it. This distro worked
previously from a floppy using syslinux, with the tipical initrd booting
system. Now I'm trying to boot it from CF, but I can't. By other side
I've another distro that boots from pxelinux that I want to make it boot
from CF as well, but when I try it from syslinux in a CF system hangs. 
 
I'm writing to the CF through a USB card writer from my laptop and it's
mounted as SDD1. 
Note: When I try to write with syslinux system, this tell me that the
number of sectors per track isn't a multiple of sectors, but I can force
it. 
 
Could anyone help me about it, or recommend some kind of way for making
boot a kernel+initrd system from CF ?
Are there any kernel parameter that must be compiled explicitally ?
 
Thanks for all and best regards
 
Carlos Tous Ferrer
Director General Grupo Hares C.B.
ctous at grupohares.com
+34 971 76 04 10
+34 626 03 27 72
www.grupohares.com

Carlos Tous Ferrer wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>  
> It's my first time asking something here. I've a 128 MB Compact
Flash
> and I tried to boot up a Linux mini distro from it. This distro worked
> previously from a floppy using syslinux, with the tipical initrd booting
> system. Now I'm trying to boot it from CF, but I can't. By other
side
> I've another distro that boots from pxelinux that I want to make it
boot
> from CF as well, but when I try it from syslinux in a CF system hangs. 
>  
> I'm writing to the CF through a USB card writer from my laptop and
it's
> mounted as SDD1. 
> Note: When I try to write with syslinux system, this tell me that the
> number of sectors per track isn't a multiple of sectors, but I can
force
> it. 
>  
Since you're mounting your filesystem as a partition, you need to have 
an MBR installed.  Do you?

	-hpa