Hi,
IDE-CF should work just fine, but you have to disable DMA for IDE port where you have it connected (boot parameter: ide1=nodma - does not work with some kernels). I've been using straight IDE to CF adapter with no electronics on it, and never had any problems. Use branded CF cards though, Transcend proved to be good on it, but A-data works with hick-ups.
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 19:05 +0100, Peter Stuge wrote:
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 04:00:32PM +0100, Klaus Stammermann wrote:
exception Emask ... 0x2 frozen soft resetting port... configured for UDMA... (... are inserted by me because I got this output only on display)
At end kernel panic is shown: 0800 2000880 sda driver: sd Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
But installed system starts with original bios. As device I use a CF-disk on an CF-IDE adapter.
What kind of CF-IDE adapter? I have come across some nameless products that cause a CF to just not work. PC Engines' adapters on the other hand have always worked perfectly for me.
Does anyone get an idea how to solve this problem?
Try booting from a normal disk.
//Peter