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Help Creating Bootable CF (modified 0 times) nazareth Profile I've got a sandisk 64MB card, and a usb SDDR-31 sandisk CF adapter. I've got both Win98SE and Win2K installed. However, I was unable to see the CF card from FDISK or Ranish. I did have the card plugged in when rebooting the PC. Has anyone else achieved success using this (or any) usb adapter? If so, which ones work? Thanks, Sean 11-19-2001 12:10:05

RE:Help Creating Bootable CF (modified 0 times) mrbug Profile found out this today! the only thing i can say is to go in device manager under hard drive and click property on you cf reader go under setings and remove th checkbox int13 reboot and it should work!! 11-19-2001 14:52:58

RE:Help Creating Bootable CF (modified 0 times) keith721 Profile mrbug: glad to hear that you may have found a solution -- let us know how it works, there's others using different model SanDisk USB CF readers, some with problems, some without. it could certainly be a difference in the setup script for different models, based upon the different product identification codes. keith721 11-19-2001 14:55:58

RE:Help Creating Bootable CF (modified 0 times) nazareth Profile I've tried this and found no success in Win98 or Win98SE. To "clear" the INT-13 bit, I had to find the entry in the registry. I couldn't keep the removable option cleared though. I'd clear it, the system would ask me to reboot, and it would be set again on reboot. By the way, I have the sandisk SDDR-31 Sean 11-19-2001 16:18:17

RE:Help Creating Bootable CF (modified 0 times) mrbug Profile where did you go to change the bit for int13 because at home im looking for it and can't find it it would help me thanks will give you news on the int13 setup stuff! 11-19-2001 17:03:53

RE:Help Creating Bootable CF (modified 0 times) mrbug Profile forget about that i have found it i did not look before to ask sorry i have done this at work and it have worked now im home and it does not work 11-19-2001 17:37:19

RE:Help Creating Bootable CF (modified 0 times) GRISHNAKH Profile No luck here either. sandisk SDDR-31 and win98, win98SE My INT 13 box was greyed out. I had to do some registry editing to get it unchecked but that didn't do the trick either. Thanks for the idea though. 11-20-2001 06:55:15

RE:Help Creating Bootable CF (modified 0 times) mrbug Profile well the int 13 thing is from sandisk i have called them back and said to them that it is not working and that i need to repartition my cf card so they sent the info to a higher level they will call me back and if we can find a solution i will post back! they said it was the same setting to do with pcmcia card reader to remove only the int13 leave the removable check box on and it should work so see ya back after that 11-20-2001 08:04:36

RE:Help Creating Bootable CF (modified 0 times) mrbug Profile i did it with my sddr 1 parallel port and it works im waiting for th info for sddr 31 for the sddr 1 it is working remove int13 and voila! 11-20-2001 12:42:01

RE:Help Creating Bootable CF (modified 0 times) GRISHNAKH Profile Ugh stuck again. I got an IDE -> CF adapter and got my CF card formatted FAT16 with ranish. I created a primary partition, marked bootable, and the MBR is set to standard IPL. I sys'd it from a win98 boot disk after I formatted it from the floppy. When I stick it in the IA-1 I get: "Disk I/O error Replace the disk, and then press any key" It seems like I'm doing something wrong with ranish. In the BIOS everything is enabled in IDE Devices and Boot Order is D:, C:, A:. I cursed, I prayed, I waved the magic chicken bone. Not quite sure what to do next. 11-21-2001 18:05:21

RE:Help Creating Bootable CF (modified 0 times) keith721 Profile GRISHNAKH: you said after I formatted it from the floppy. if you used the DOS format command from a floppy disk, chances are you overwrote the Ranish FAT-16 partition entry with a DOS FAT-12 entry. Look at it again in Ranish Partition Manager, and see what it says. Once you've formatted it with Ranish as FAT-16 <<32Mb you only need to SYS it, not format it again... hope this helps. keith721 11-21-2001 18:16:51

RE:Help Creating Bootable CF (modified 0 times) mrbug Profile hi all im looking for someone who can tell me how to mount the cf card so i can get file on my cf card because i need them for updating jailbait to recognize my linksys 100bt thanks1! 11-21-2001 18:49:01

RE:Help Creating Bootable CF (modified 0 times) GRISHNAKH Profile Keith721: I can't seem to get it working for me. I've tried FAT16 <32 and FAT16 DOS with a 16meg and a 64meg card. I delete everything but the MBR, which is standard IPL. Insert a FAT16 partition, press B to make it bootable, and F to format it. Then I exit ranish and sys c:. That should do it right? 11-21-2001 19:15:05

RE:Help Creating Bootable CF (modified 0 times) keith721 Profile GRISHNAKH: that sounds right -- but you must mean some other drive than C: (your hard drive??) in your SYS command, right ? what IDE-to-CF adapter device are you using, and what brand/model of CF cards? what version of Windoze? what version of Ranish? just wondering... keith721 11-21-2001 19:33:47

RE:Help Creating Bootable CF (modified 0 times) GRISHNAKH Profile hmm it's an IDE -> CF adapter I got from ACScontrol.com. I only have one PC at home so I have to disconnect my hard drive and connect the CF adapter. It's set up to be the master device on my primary chain so it shows up at C: and I boot with a win98 boot disk. The 16meg CF is a Kodak, which I THINK is a rebranded Sandisk. The 64 is a Viking. Ranish 2.40, maybe I'll try 2.41 beta next. 11-21-2001 19:49:01

RE:Help Creating Bootable CF (modified 0 times) keith721 Profile GRISHNAKH: hmmmmm... i can't begin to imagine what the problem might be. sorry i couldn't be more help... keith721 11-21-2001 21:11:31

RE:Help Creating Bootable CF (modified 0 times) GRISHNAKH Profile Does anyone have a bootable CF image I can download? My SCSCI drive shows up as D: so I can put it on there and dolly it to my CF and that SHOULD work, right? Or just contact me to email it to my main email. I have broadband so the size it's a big deal. juno_reactor_nc(at)yahoo(dot)com 11-22-2001 05:48:51

RE:Help Creating Bootable CF (modified 0 times) keith721 Profile GRISHNAKH: unfortunately, my CF image is ~~250MB, from a 256 MB CF card. i don't have anywhere to post it, and it's too large to e-mail. so, if anybody has the web space, speak up now, and i'll FTP it over. it's Win98SE, with IE 5.0, 3C19250 (KawasakiLSI) and 3C460B (ADMtek Pegasus II) USB Ethernet drivers, the CyberBlade video chip, the VIA 82C686 South Bridge drivers (sound works !!), but no modem driver (yet.) another alternative would be to open an FTP port over my broadband connection, but that's kinda risky, these days. maybe burning a CD-ROM with the driver zips in separate directories would work? snailmail is slow, but CD-ROM's go by First Class mail in about three days? e-mail me at my message board nick AT carolina DOT rr DOT com, and we can work something out... keith721 11-22-2001 12:37:45

RE:Help Creating Bootable CF (modified 0 times) GRISHNAKH Profile Here's more weirdness. I'm using a win95 bootdisk with ranish 2.41 beta. Now I get "Missing operating system." In ranish I made sure the MBR was there, inserted a FAT16 partition, and marked it bootable. Then rebooted and sys'd the CF. I don't know why I'm getting that error message since i sys'd the CF from the floppy. Well at least my ia-1 actually sees the CF now. But thanks to keith721 I now have an image of win98. I just need to buy bigger media. 11-22-2001 19:29:58

RE:Help Creating Bootable CF (modified 0 times) klunk Profile Here is an answer to some questions. First, some CF readers are not recognized by fdisk or ranish, including some Sandisk readers (per previous posts) and my Lexar Model GS-UFD-20SA-TP multi-media (CF, SmartCard) reader. Furthermore, and even worse, some readers ARE recognized by fdisk, ranish, etc., but produce corrupted images that will not boot in the IAOne. One of these is a PNY multimedia reader that I got recently free with a 64 MB flash card. I am successful in creating good, bootable CF's with a Memorex CF (only) reader that I bought last night at CompUSA. Those of you who cannot produce a bootable CF for their IAOne should consider the Memorex reader (there are obviously others, too). 11-24-2001 13:07:14

RE:Help Creating Bootable CF (modified 0 times) nazareth Profile I was able to create the bootable CF using an IBM pc-card - CF adapter that I borrowed from a friend with a microdrive. Sean 11-27-2001 11:38:06

RE:Help Creating Bootable CF (modified 1 times) chainsaw76 Profile Keith, Are you still looking for a home for that image? Email me at ia1 at i40 dot com. As long as the image isn't going to be hammerd (I doubt it will) I have space for it. -Jason 11-29-2001 10:01:47

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