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Posted: Sep. 24 2007,14:46 QUOTE
Reason? Probably because CF users are limited and then not everyone reads every thread :P

Since it sits on grub and has no error message, my guess is that you need a different boot loader.  I have found that LILO works on my oldest hardware, whereas others such as grub do not.

Sometimes it could be some setting in your BIOS related to disk drives that you could change to make things compatible... for this I mainly just did trial-and-error - but from your description, your BIOS doesn't seem to be of much help.

Getting to more general problems, it could be a hardware problem as you stated.  Bad RAM and IDE channels, etc. sometimes happen and can cause undesired results.  Taking things out, switching around, replacement, testing things etc. could help to isolate problems. (but your RAM is soldered anyways)
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Posted: Sep. 25 2007,21:11 QUOTE
Thanks for that, but I think there are simpler causes that should be ruled out before resorting to last-ditch measures :-)

Probably roberts gave me the best hint when he asked how the installation was done on the other laptop. I guess GRUB (the part on the MBR) is not looking for the rest of itself in the right place...

Now I just need to mount that CF on that other laptop again and try to find where the grub.conf and/or menu.lst files are on a frugal install... I guess not in /etc :-)
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Posted: Sep. 25 2007,21:47 QUOTE
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Probably roberts gave me the best hint when he asked how the installation was done on the other laptop. I guess GRUB (the part on the MBR) is not looking for the rest of itself in the right place...
Well you said there was no error msg, so I was answering based on the assumption that grub didn't work for that system (but then there could be a workaround)
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Posted: Sep. 26 2007,01:19 QUOTE
Have you tried the loadlin/poormans install:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Loadlin_Install

This will allow you to do all the setting up on the 760 once you have copied the filesystem accross as described in the Wiki. At least this way you will be able to get DSL up & running. What is the graphics chipset in the 760? I tried to get DSL onto a 755 with the WD90C24 chipset & finally had to resort to using the method described at the foot of the wiki page:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Vga%3Dxxx

Good luck!
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Posted: Sep. 26 2007,19:44 QUOTE
Thanks for the hints andrew. I hadn't thought of using the loadlin install, but it might be a good way of checking out hardware issues before I hack at the CF problem again...
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