I'm using the iMedia Linux 4.0.1 CD-ROM, an M200 with a Compact Flash card and an IDE CD (attached just for installation purposes).
I've successfully installed the distro with a scaled down version of the Workstation install on two older 128MB CF cards (a SanDisk and a Kingston).
However, when I've tried newer CF cards (an INTRON 128MB card (supplied with the M200) and a SanDisk UltraII 2GB) the system won't boot from them - even with the exact same install as works with the older cards. After the install completes and the system reboots after getting the Boot From CD: message (which it displays before trying to boot from the CF) it then displays the following:
. ...
and then hangs. I've changed the GRUB settings (via a fresh format and install) to display the boot menu - but it fails in the same way as above before even displaying the GRUB menu.
I've noticed that the INTRON's report slightly less capacity than the older CF cards (by about a couple of megabytes). I'm wondering if there's some trickery with a partition or somesuch on the newer cards that doesn't exist on the older ones? Each time I install I've selected "format device".
One other very strange phenomenon - I've successfully installed DSL (Damn Small Linux) on the INTRON cards but when booting from the card it takes 10 minutes or more to boot (literally that long - not an exageration). (And, anyway, I'd much rather be using the iMedia distro than DSL).
Help! I have 3 M200's to install at a customer's site but I only have 2 old 128MB CF cards...
We had several reports about this kind of problems and we're investigating. You can try to disable UDMA and SMART from BIOS and see if the problem persist.
Tue, 2007-03-27 21:56 
Joined: 2007-03-18
I'm using the iMedia Linux 4.0.1 CD-ROM, an M200 with a Compact Flash card and an IDE CD (attached just for installation purposes).
I've successfully installed the distro with a scaled down version of the Workstation install on two older 128MB CF cards (a SanDisk and a Kingston).
However, when I've tried newer CF cards (an INTRON 128MB card (supplied with the M200) and a SanDisk UltraII 2GB) the system won't boot from them - even with the exact same install as works with the older cards. After the install completes and the system reboots after getting the Boot From CD: message (which it displays before trying to boot from the CF) it then displays the following:
. ...
and then hangs. I've changed the GRUB settings (via a fresh format and install) to display the boot menu - but it fails in the same way as above before even displaying the GRUB menu.
I've noticed that the INTRON's report slightly less capacity than the older CF cards (by about a couple of megabytes). I'm wondering if there's some trickery with a partition or somesuch on the newer cards that doesn't exist on the older ones? Each time I install I've selected "format device".
One other very strange phenomenon - I've successfully installed DSL (Damn Small Linux) on the INTRON cards but when booting from the card it takes 10 minutes or more to boot (literally that long - not an exageration). (And, anyway, I'd much rather be using the iMedia distro than DSL).
Help! I have 3 M200's to install at a customer's site but I only have 2 old 128MB CF cards...
Many thanks,
John H.