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Topic: Unable to boot from pcmcia card

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Ham13

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Posted: Oct. 15 2006,20:09

I use a boot floopy to boot the PC. The image is on the HD. DSL finds this image. The CD ROM image is not found. The pcmcia drive is still not found. Nothing comes from the cd. The system does not know it is there. The /dev/hda1 is mounted on the /mnt/cdrom directory.

pradi

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Posted: Oct. 18 2006,13:17

You should download DSL with syslinux ISO and burn to CD. My laptop is installed via PCMCIA CDROM also. And refer the part of frugal install from http://www.mizuhoradio.com/persona....cn.html

Ham13

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Posted: Oct. 19 2006,00:58

Well some more info:

Changed the interface card to a newer one

Now when DSL boots it first finds the DSL image on /dev/hda1
Then it starts cardmanager and correctly identifies the PCMCIA card and the CD-ROM (SCD0) can be mounted as ro.

If I change the name of the Knoppix directory on the HDD and instruct dsl to boot from the PCMCIA card (Either Syslinux or Isolinux image)

dsl frompcmcia 2

It prompts for the PCMCIA modules and cardmanager starts but this time the DSL image is not found. Cardmanager does not report any errors. I'm dumped to a shell that is so limited the only thing I can do is to reboot.

Is it possible that the CD-ROM is found but not mounted or is it somthing more...?

Thanks for the replys

pradi

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Posted: Oct. 28 2006,02:24

I expect you CDROM is OK.So if you use DSL syslinux package. You dont need to copy any file located on HDD. You can just do like you are using Live CD and let its process continued until boot complete. After that you should able right click to do follow DSL menu. I recommend to part hdd partition as that links done and use it as a guidance.

Ham13

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Posted: Nov. 03 2006,00:26

Been there, done that. The CD ROM is recognized after DSL boots from the HDD and cardmgr starts. Booting from the boot floppy with the pcmcia floppy does not work. The cardmgr supplied on the pcmcia boot disk does not find the CDROM.

So i boot from the floppy and use the image on the HDD. Unfortunatly fluxbox will not work this way. It just blanks the screen and freezes. I'm to the point of frustration and maybe its not worth the effort. Too many problems!

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