[Peeweelinux] compact flash

[Ricardo Trindade]

ok, I'll get back to you on this.

-----Original Message-----
From: peeweelinux-admin@adis.on.ca
[mailto:peeweelinux-admin@adis.on.ca]On Behalf Of Adi Linden
Sent: terca-feira, 17 de Dezembro de 2002 15:39
To: peeweelinux@adis.on.ca
Subject: Re: [Peeweelinux] compact flash


Yes, pwlconfig will fdisk and format the device. However, I have had cases
where devices didn't get fdisked properly. That is usually the case when
fdisk can't determine (or wrongly determines) the disk geometry.
Run fdisk -l on both CF Cards and compare the output.

Adi

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Ricardo Trindade wrote:

> hi,
>
> 	I have 2 compact flash disks that are exactly the same.
>
> 	With one of them, when I write a peeweelinux image, it boots fine. with
the
> other, it doesn't. So I figured the disk was broken, but I tried to "diff"
> the contents of both disks, and they were not the same.
>
> 	However, I tried to dd the contents of the good disk to a file, and then
to
> the "broken" disk, and it started working fine.
>
> 	I used to think that the peewee scripts wiped everything in the disk, but
> now I'm not so sure anymore. Do you have any idea of what could be going
on
> ?
>
> 	I'm using peewee under rh8.0.
>
> Thanks
> Ricardo Trindade
>
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