I gone through the thread "about compact flash"
I too face a similar porblem.It is glad to see a fruitful result for this discussion.
Please help me out too.
My need demands me ext2 filesystem,unfortunately ,I found that syslinux doesnot support ext2.
http://syslinux.zytor.com/faq.php#bootable
The procedure i followed is as listed
1.Kept the 16 MB flash onto the IDE slot 2.bash# mke2fs -m0 /dev/hdc1 bash# mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt 3.Took a minimised compiled Kernel 4.bash#mkdir /mnt/boot 5.copied a bzImage /mnt/boot/ 6.bash# cp /boot/boot.b /mnt/boot/ 7.cp -dpR entire filesystem to /mnt (except for boot directory) 8.bash# cd /mnt/etc 9.edited lilo accordingly 10.bash# lilo -r /mnt
After running lilo i booted my box with flash. The booting struck showing LI Any help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance Regards, Ravi
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