Installing on a Compact Flash card. Solved??

2009-04-03 Thread Stackpole, Chris
Well, after doing the GRUB MBR reinstall a dozen different ways I decided that it wasn't the software. I took the laptop apart and pulled the CF out, plugged it into my desktop through a USB-to-IDE connector, and it booted! I can successfully boot and use the CF drive on the desktop but putting it

RE: Installing on a Compact Flash card.

2009-04-03 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Daryl Styrk [mailto:darylst...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 9:54 AM > Subject: Re: Installing on a Compact Flash card. > > I'd have a look at Debian's guide to the eee. Your approach seems > similar enough. http://wiki.debian.org/Deb

RE: Installing on a Compact Flash card.

2009-04-03 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Daryl Styrk [mailto:darylst...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 9:54 AM > Subject: Re: Installing on a Compact Flash card. > > Thorny wrote: > > [...] > >> So now I am a bit confused. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Can > any > >> o

Re: Installing on a Compact Flash card.

2009-04-03 Thread Daryl Styrk
Thorny wrote: [...] So now I am a bit confused. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Can any one advice me on what to try next? Should I try to reinstall with a /boot partition and a / partition? Is there something I need to do for the CF card? Did you write a GRUB MBR to the drive, Chris?

Re: Installing on a Compact Flash card.

2009-04-03 Thread Thorny
[...] > So now I am a bit confused. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Can any > one advice me on what to try next? Should I try to reinstall with a /boot > partition and a / partition? Is there something I need to do for the CF > card? > Did you write a GRUB MBR to the drive, Chris? -- To U

Installing on a Compact Flash card.

2009-04-03 Thread Stackpole, Chris
Hello, I have an older laptop that has been working rather well, until the hard drive started making horrible noises that is. So I backed up the hard drive and was going to replace it with something much newer. I only found drives way bigger and more expensive then I actually need in this little la