Eric W. Biederman wrote:
PCMCIA mount?
Etherboot wont look at pcmcia devices. If its going to find a compact flash card, it will be because there's a compact flash on IDE adapter. Then it will see it as a hard disk.
You may have a point. Richard how many IDE disks do you have?
Slight miscommunication there. The CF is pcmcia mounted on my _developement_ system. I was just trying to clarify why my disk mount was /dev/hde for the 'cat >' rather than hda. Looks like I just confused things further. :(
On my _target_ device the CF is a connector on the PCB. Its hda and the only IDE device I have.
I still favor the partition is to late on the disk theory but, not checking the CF works as well.
For a pure test case it is possible to just dd the ELF image onto the start of the disk. If you don't need partitions. That is the way Ron is currently using the code.
Thanks I'll give that a try. I also see just where fdisk put the 1st partition.