[mythtv-users] Trouvble booting with CF card
David Brodbeck
gull at gull.us
Thu Oct 1 02:43:32 UTC 2009
Paul Bender wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote:
>> I have followed to the letter the instructions for booting minimyth
>> from a CF card in a CF-IDE adaptor in a VIA EPIA M9000 machine. Its
>> the only device on that IDE header.
>>
>> When the system boots it goes to the syslinux boot: propmpt and just
>> sits there forever.
>>
>> If I press enter it boots the default (and only) entry in
>> syslinux.cfg. However I don't really want a keyboard on the system,
>> once i get it all going sweet, so it not booting the default without
>> user intervention is a pain.
>>
>> Any clues?
>
> From the syslinux configuration:
>
> -----
>
> PROMPT flag_val
>
> If flag_val is 0, display the boot: prompt only if the Shift or Alt key
> is pressed, or Caps Lock or Scroll lock is set (this is the default). If
> flag_val is 1, always display the boot: prompt.
>
> -----
>
> Are any of these (Shift or Alt pressed, or Caps or Scroll Lock set) true
> for your keyboard? Often computers boot with scroll lock set.
There's also a TIMEOUT parameter that may be useful. The default is no
timeout. Units are tenths of seconds.
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