BorderGeek
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Posted: Aug. 20 2006,23:19 |
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We use a computer only sporadically, so I would like to leave at least the CPU running all day once it is powered on. But for the sake of Planet Earth and because we have no air conditioning, we need a machine that is quiet, low power, and low heat. I bought a machine that uses the Via CV860A motherboard packaged in a small case which has room for only one drive, a slimline 2.5" HDD. (The machine came with no drives.) The board has a 40 pin IDE1 connector and a 44 pin IDE2, so the 2.5" drive would have to be the on IDE2. The board has a Compact Flash (CF) adaptor which, if used, is the Master on IDE2. Because there is no space in the case, I can't put any HDD on IDE1, though I COULD use a Disk on Module (DOM).
I decided to go only with a 2GB CF card which is limited to being HDC. DSL runs beautifully when booted from CDROM. I tried a frugal install with LILO, but DSL says that it supports only HDA for LILO. So I did a GRUB install, which went OK. But when I try to boot from the CF (HDC) it gives the message "GRUB: Hard drive error". Yet, if I boot from CDROM and mount the CF, I can read and write files on the CF, so it doesn't look like hardware problems.
BTW, the Menu file in the GRUB directory on the CF doesn't look exactly like the example in the DSL Wiki, which has the extra lines "make active" and "boot", but it does resemble MENU files on other distros.
If all else fails, I could install a DOM on IDE1 and try a LILO install, but there is no guarantee that will work. Any ideas? Thanks a lot for any help.
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