I want to bypass the flash card and downloaded the following instructions. I have my hard drive on sda1. I disconnected the flash card and loaded the factory 1.0.1.15 iso disk.
1. Load factory Restore CD-ROM
2. When it states compact flash not found press on your keyboard Ctrl + Alt + F2
3. username: root password: admin
4. Enter the commands below
fdisk /dev/hda or sda < /usr/bin/flash.part
mke2fs /dev/hda1 or sda1
mount /dev/hda1 or sda1 /mnt/flash
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cd
tar -xjf /cdrom/zz/rootfs-1.0.1.15-fact-cw-lmc.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/flash/
grub --no-curses < /usr/bin/grubins
umount /mnt/flash
umount /cdrom
reboot
When I reboot I get kernel hang or if I use the 16r1 disk I get starting system which the status bar never moves, so:
Questions:
1) How should I format the hard drive? I tried Windows and I tried doing it in Lunux Ubunto and when I type the first command I get:
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 121601
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024 and could in certain setups cause problems with:
a) software that runs at boot time
b) booting and partitioning software from other OS's
All of the other commands go through without an error.
2) Should I format the hard drive with the flash card installed through the software?
3) Should I format the hard drive in Linux Ubunto with 1024 for number of cylinders?
4) How do do this with disk utility?
I feel like I am so close to ditching the stupid flash card, but seem to be 1 step away from Nirvana.
5) Is there a "/" after flash on the 5th command? I saw some people use it and some don't regardless it hasn't helped me.
Any help would allow me to live a productive life. This has been driving me crazy.