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    CF28 booting from cf card

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by dukeluca86, Jan 27, 2012.

  1. dukeluca86

    dukeluca86 Notebook Consultant

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    Hi guys, i was wondering, it's possible to make a cf28 that boot from a cf card (4 or 8 gb) installed with an adapter, inside the third (hidden) PCMCIA socket ?

    It should be seen as a mass storage connected to the 32bit bus, am i right ?
     
    dukeluca86, Jan 27, 2012
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  2. toughasnails

    toughasnails Toughbook Moderator Moderator

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    I don't think you have that option in the BIOS unless there is a way around it.
     
    toughasnails, Jan 27, 2012
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    ADOR Evil Mad Scientist

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    I have run three different CF-28's (Mk2,3) with a compact flash with adapter in the harddrive caddy but haven't tried it in the "hidden" spot. You may be able to do a work around with using a floppy drive in the media bay and booting with Plop linux, but if the bios has it locked out you will be out of luck on that.
     
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  4. interestingfellow

    interestingfellow Notebook Deity

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    check out smartbootmanager at source forge.
    if it can be done, that should do it.
     
    interestingfellow, Jan 27, 2012
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  5. dukeluca86

    dukeluca86 Notebook Consultant

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    Ok thank you guys
     
    dukeluca86, Jan 27, 2012
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