[CS-FSLUG] mini-ITX boot problem

[Ron Thompson]

I spoke too soon.  It doesn't boot properly after swapping the cards, it gets 
started and them comes back with Checking root file system
fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hdb2 FAILED

I'm out of my league.

Not much point in having a mni-ITX if you have to duct tape an old CD-RW onto 
the case just to get it to boot :-)

    Ron

On Wednesday 01 April 2009 23:42, Ron Thompson wrote:
> Further on this problem, I was able to get it to boot from the CF card
> adapter by swapping cards 1 and 2.  Apartenly with the CD on the second IDE
> connector the first card isn't seen and the OS was installed on the second
> card.
>
>  So I guess this means that if I would also like to have a DVD/CD it MUST
> be SATA?
>
>     Ron
>
> On Wednesday 01 April 2009 22:48, Ron Thompson wrote:
> > I'm really out of touch with Linux, I don't have any idea of what is
> > happening.  I have an Intel 945GCLF mini-ITX and I'm using a Startech CF
> > memory adapter in place of a hard drive.  The CF adapter has a pair of
> > 4GB cards and the BIOS sees them as a master and slave HD on the IDE
> > connector. I had a very difficult time getting anything to work as a CD
> > to install CentOS 4.4 on them CF card, but I did find that using a very
> > old CD-RW with the master slave set to CSEL I could get one of the two
> > cards on the card adapter recognized and managed to install CentOS.
> >
> >  Following the installation, the second CF card is not seen, although it
> > does show up in the BIOS set up menu, and the CD-RW also shows up.  And
> > the system does boot from the CF card in the adapter.  But here is where
> > I'm lost.  as long as the CD-RW is on the IDE cable the first CF card
> > works fineand the system boots, but if the CD-RW is disconnected it will
> > not boot from the CF card even though the BIOS knows its there.
> >
> >    Would anyone have an idea of what may be wrong?  The CF card adapter
> > is a Startech CF2X2IDE25.  On the box it says "Memory card boots like IDE
> > hard drive without any device drivers", but this seems only to be true as
> > long as the CD-RW is on the cable and set to CSEL.
> >
> >     Ron

-- 
Ron Thompson, |^|
Yellowknife, NT, Canada
"Who are are these that fly as a cloud, and as doves to their window?" Is 60:8