Re: Can't get net4501 to boot from CF

Eric Baker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.soekris.technical
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello David,
What errors are you seeing on the console at boot time?  When working
with binary images for Soekris boxen on Windows (M0n0wall or flashrd,
for example), I've used physdiskwrite almost exclusively and it works fine-
http://m0n0.ch/wall/physdiskwrite.php
  Eric



On 12/22/2014 1:06 AM, David J Taylor wrote:
> [My first post here - I've looked through the previous 6 months and
> don't see this as a topic]
>
> I have been the fortunate recipient of a net4501, but although I've
> written a Compact Flash card image it doesn't boot, from the CF card,
> although the V1.23 BIOS appears to work.  I may not spend too long on
> this but could anyone point me to a known working image?  I used
> m0n0wall net45xx-1.236.img as a test, but eventually I might like to
> try NTP - just for interest.
>
> To write the card I used the Windows program: Win32 Disk Imager
>
>  http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
>
> which has successfully written SD cards for booting Raspberry Pi PCs
> and I tried both a 128 MB and a 30 MB CF card.
>
> Thanks,
> David
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