Cf And Sd Card Not Found When Flashing New Kernel

[band-aid]

I'm trying to flash a new angstrom kernel for use with a Debian EABI rootfs. I boot to the menu using ok+power. I select option 4 and choose either SD or CF. It boots into the sharp flashing utility but says that it cannot find the medium I have selected and restarts. This is on a completely clean flash (hasn't even been booted for real yet) restore from conics. I have zImage.bin, updater.sh, and gnu-tar on the cards.

If I leave it on and let is restart it goes back to what looks like the sharp flash utility but it says hdd2 error down in the bottom.


EDIT: I just tried reformatting the card and making another attempt

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mkfs.vfat -F 16 /dev/mmcblk0
mount /dev/mmcblk0 /media/help
cp zImage.bin /media/help
cp updater.sh /media/help
cp gnu-tar /media/help
umount /media/help
No dice...

[band-aid]

I just completely restored everything back to trisoft rom and hdimage. I made extensive use of the CF and SD slots throughout this process so it is not a hardware problem. What filesystem does the card have to be formatted as in order to work?

[Dargor]

usually Fat16, which should work
iirc is fat32 od sd or cf not recognised
so your trying from above should work

hth

br, Dargor

[speculatrix]

make sure that your memory cards have a partition table. sometimes people corrupt them and reformat the raw disk... i.e. they'd do "mkfs.vfat /dev/hdb" and not "mkfs.vfat /dev/hdb1".  So, use "fdisk -l" to verify that the card has a partition table.

windows will quite happily work with an unpartitioned card, you can mount partition-table-less cards in linux, but the linux user space automounters won't see the card and won't mount it automagically