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Problem w/ initial boot (modified 0 times) TheGoose Profile This is the 2nd IA-1 that I'm hacking, so I'm not a total noob. When I try to boot the 1st time (I'm using workstation.img), it goes through the whole linux boot process, then fails with the following messages: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0 cramfs: wrong magic UMSDOS 0.86k (compatibility level 0.4, fast msdos) check_pseudo_root: mounted as root VFS: Mounted root (umsdos filesystem) readonly Freeing unused kernel memory: 88k freed Warning: unable to open an initial console Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel I'm also concerned that after I flashed the bios with the paperclip, if I don't get the boot order correct, MSN Messenger reappears. Could this be an "unhackable" IA-1? Is there a way to tell? 09-02-2003 19:02:26

RE:Problem w/ initial boot (modified 0 times) TheGoose Profile BTW, I am using a 512MB CF card. Could that be part of the problem? 09-02-2003 19:08:41

RE:Problem w/ initial boot (modified 0 times) bkolden Profile I've gotten the "cramfs: wrong magic" error when attempting to boot a Linux image from the CF card as apposed to loading it from the internal SanDisk. Hope this helps. -- bkolden 09-05-2003 21:54:06

RE:Problem w/ initial boot (modified 0 times) TheGoose Profile But this is my initial boot. I haven't had the chance to copy to the internal sandisk yet!!!! 09-09-2003 15:25:24

RE:Problem w/ initial boot (modified 0 times) TheGoose Profile OK... I wasn't following the directions correctly. As this was my 2nd hack, I thought I remembered what to do. I was making my initial CF boot off a card with the WWWes image, and not the small eltorito.img file. When I re-read things, and followed the well written directions, all worked well. Now I've got two hacked ia-1's acting as digital picture frames! Now if I can only get my slideshow script to start automatically at boot time! 09-10-2003 20:32:14

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