Re: Continual Reboot on CF

From: KM (konstmor_at_nospam_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/29/04


Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:11:55 -0800

wkearney99,

What do you mean by not boot? What phase of the boot does it fail on?
Please put a non-zero timeout in boot.ini so that you know if at least the ntldr gets loaded.
Let us know what image you are trying to boot off the drive.

KM

>> The final result was that the platform would not boot off of an IBM
>> MicroDrive. I used a 512MB CF without any problems. I am looking into
> BIOS
>> tweaks. We don't need microdrive support; however, you never know if
> some
>> OEM will require it.
>
> Has anyone seen the situation where a machine WILL boot from a 340mb
> Microdrive but won't boot from the 512mb version? I've several 340mb
> microdrives that fidks, format and boot fine. But I've only one 512mb
> microdrive and it just won't boot. Everything else used to access the
> drive works fine (without any errors shown). Set up on the 512 is
> being done exactly the same as on any of the other 340mb microdrives.
> It fdisks fine, formats fine, accepts the system and all the rest. It
> just won't boot. This using plain old win98 msdos.
>
> Any suggestions?



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