Re: More compact flash issues

Yeap did that, sorry for not mentioning it.

Still no real progress, I keep thinking if I can just get it to boot to dos
I'll know its not a hardware issue. Unfortunately everything I find that
will make a dos boot disk ... intends to make one out of a floppy. Anyone
have any idea how in this day and age I'd make something dos bootable? I
have no floppy drives on any machine here ... even if I did I doubt I could
find any floppy media if I had to.

I dont think I'm even getting to NTLDR.



"Mark Kraft" wrote:

Feral,

Make sure the primary partition is set to Active.


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"Feral" <Feral@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ok so I've scoured this newsgroup and read every post with CF or compact
flash in it. I hate when people ask the same stupid questions too, but
I'm
at a total loss. Anyhow here goes.

I'm a total XPe newbie, so I suspect this is 100% user error. Anyhow
problem:

I've got a tiny little fanless machine with no peripherals which I'm
trying
to get to boot XPe off of a flash drive. I have 2 different CF drives,
each
512. I've tried the same on both:

Use fdisk to delete existing partitions
Use fdisk to create 2 partitions, primary is 320, secondary is 168
Format both drives with FAT
run BootPrep on the primary
Copy my build over

Both drives ... same issue: "disk error".

I used a hex editor to crack open the MBR of the flash drive and I found
that as one of the three error messages in there. I suspect this is an
MBR
issue but its all undocumented so I can't start flipping bits. Anyone
have
any idea how I can get this fixed? At this point I dont know if the CF's
are
even bootable or whatnot. I don't have a clear debugging path here and I
am
really out of my domain of knowledge. I would like to try and make the
damned things DOS bootable as an acid test but apparently its nigh
impossible
to make anything but a floppy disk DOS bootable.



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