Continual Reboot on CF

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Moot

I have a 1GB IBM CF HD that continually reboots when I place it in my
target device. I have partitioned, formatted, and bootprepped the
CFHD. I then placed my image created from Target Designer onto the
device. It does not boot.

I used an IDE-CF adapater to build the device and a USB writer to
write the files to the device. Any problem with that?

Can I re-partition and format with format /s to see if it is bootable
with DOS?

BTW, the target device is an AMD SC1200 CPU. It has been running Linux
no problem.

Moot
 
Hi Moot,

First step is to determine if your ntldr is loaded and working.

1. fdisk format, bootprep CF on your target device.
2. create boot.ini like this on CF.
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Test 1" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Test 2" /fastdetect
3. Copy ntldr. to CF.
4. Boot your target device.

You should get multi os choice screen for 30 seconds. If you can reach this then we will see why XPe do not load.

Regards,
Slobodan
 
OK, I re-partitioned, formatted, bootprepped. I have made a boot.ini
as defined and copied the ntldr to the CF microdrive. I have placed
the CF microdive into the IDE-CF adapter and rebooted. I get just a
cursor blinking.

Thus, it seems the CF is not properly prepared? I have also taken a
former Linux 64MB CF and tried the same. GRUB still tries to load.
Maybe bootprep is not doing its job?

Boot
 
Moot,

What output you saw when you ran bootprep?
Make sure that CF partition is marked as active (hope you partitioned it with DOS fdisk).
Also, make sure that you have CF on primary master channel and no HDD is connected.

Change your boot.ini to set some non-zero (30) timeout. If you see the NT Loader menu, you properly partitioned and formatted the
CF.

KM
 
ok, I got it working, somewhat. I had to fdisk /mbr. Then I copied the
boot.ini and ntldr and got it to boot. I am moving over an image now
to see if that works.

Moot
 
On 11/4/04 11:24 AM, in article
ok, I got it working, somewhat. I had to fdisk /mbr. Then I copied the
boot.ini and ntldr and got it to boot. I am moving over an image now
to see if that works.

Moot
Click to expand...

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.

Moot
 
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.
Click to expand...

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?
 
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
 
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