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Posted: June 01 2004,17:54 QUOTE
If you search the fourms the answer was posted. http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....nd+lilo

If you look at the frugal script you will see the all the parts that I added, including embedding lilo.  It is the lilo that is holding you up. As user Fred has posted in above link he manually applied a different lilo.conf.

I see the perl script also copied over the bugs from the orginal frugal.
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Posted: June 02 2004,14:41 QUOTE
I had already seen that post roberts.
Anyway, I have it booting from Compact Flash card fine now.

The CF card i am using (viking 128mb) is b0rked as it does not correctly allow DMA access to it on an IDE channel (i think sandisk / toshiba cards _can_ do this). DSL / Feather / ... see's the CF card on an IDE slot and automatically thinks it is a DMA enabled channel. Trying to read /write info off therefore causes errors  :angry:

Ah well, time to order some new CF cards then I guess.... :)
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Posted: June 02 2004,16:35 QUOTE
Couldn't you boot with "knoppix nodma"?
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Posted: June 03 2004,14:39 QUOTE
I tried sending ide=nodma to the kernel but it still detected as dma enabled no matter what i did.

I have ended up ripping out the Feather / DSL libraries and bins and placing them with peeweelinux scripts and installer etc to find quite a nice solution to most of my probs.
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