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Hi, |
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On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:06:04 -0400 |
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"David F. Newman" <dnewman@××××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> The CPU module has a 2M flash chip that currently boots DOS. I also |
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> have a PCMCIA PC/104 module that has a bios for booting off cards |
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> and a 24M flash card from an old Cisco Catalyst switch. |
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> Does anyone know if the Cisco Flash card can be used to boot a linux |
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> OS or should I abandon that and look for something like a PCMCIA |
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> hard drive? I am attempting to keep everything solid state. |
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In theory you should be able to boot from it putting the kernel into |
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your 2M flash chip, and mounting root from your Cisco flash card. |
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(You may also need an initrd on 2M flash to initialize PCMCIA, I'm not |
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sure about it.) |
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> I have a gentoo laptop which I am using to try and format the Cisco |
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> flash card using the pcmciamtd driver. It seems to recognize the |
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> card but mke2fs just hangs on it. |
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The problem is that ext2 expects a block device while MTDs are |
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character devices, so you should try using jffs2 if you want to have rw |
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access or cramfs for ro. And you'll get some bonus space because of |
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compression used in this file systems. |
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Yuri. |
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