having problems writing image with IDE to CF adapter

[Travis]

everything looks like it writes.. followed all instructions and it won't seem to boot off of the card... The flash card I am using is 64 MB and it looks like the file system is bad...


Can anyone help me????

Thanks

Travis

[tony]

We will be happy to help. First, how are you writing the image to your CF adaptor, and what is the name of the downloaded file? What does it show one screen or serial port when you try and boot?

[Travis]

I used the cat command....

cat filename.raw > /dev/hda

[Travis]

when I try to boot it says loading then hits a CRC error right away... right after the boot manager

[tony]

Try using the 'dd' command.

ie:
dd if=filename.raw of=/dev/hda bs=1M; sync

note: replace /dev/hda with your CF device name (ie. /dev/hdc for secondary master).

[David L. Vrablic]

Mike Gibbs, our Head Systems Engineer sent me this note.
Maybe it will help someone until we get it nailed down.
We ran into a problem upgrading the firmware on a TT Ver 2 CPR. w 16 Meg Flash.
We decided to try an off the shelf Sandisk "ImageMate" Part No SDDR-31

Cooter
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Not really for public consumption, I'll probably need to do it again with a reader to get more detail.
Basically, it just works, and you need to read from the first unused scsi device
(which is the one the reader gets assigned to), and then everything just pops up fine.

OS: Redhat Linux 7.3

Method:

plug in the sandisk reader to a usb port on the box.

check dmesg for messages that appear as the device is detected and modules getloaded.

Once everythings quietened down, you should be able to access the device as /dev/sda
if you have no other scsi devices in the machine (The device uses scsi emulation to appear as a regular scsi hard drive to the system).

I had to do a read access before the message popped up, fdisk -l /dev/sda worked for me.

Then I could just dd the cpe image file onto the compact flash with

dd if=cpe-1.10.4rc1-2911.raw of=/dev/sda bs=1k

(The bs just tells dd to write in blocks of 1024 bytes, but you could use pretty much anything.
My guess is that testing would find the sweet spot of the right blocksize to use to get the best write times, but as its such a small image, I don't tink there's much trouble using 1k)

You can also backup your images to files with

dd if=/dev/sda of=backup.raw bs=1k

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[tony]

Thank you. We are going to add USB reader support in our install CDs as they are so easy to obtain. Our Muse 6-in-1 USB reader works well.

Thanks!

[tony]

Well...... The new install CDs do work quite well now. The next release will have USB support for those who have the USB CF readers. We support all that we can, but there are a few that don't work such as the Kingstons.

Thanks!

[ddvzlnz]

Is the Lexar Media Compact Flash & Smart Media USB Reader (part number RW007-001) supported?

[tony]

One way to find out is to try it. :)

Most of the readers that are automatically supported under Windows 2000/XP without a driver, will be supported on our ISO install CDs.

Thanks!

[dkii]

I just successfully used 2 lexar 32mb CF cards from wal-mart. Used a siliconkits ide to cf adapter to load them.. worked fine.