[Cialug] installing Ubuntu on a cf card

[Scott Yates]

I have done this before and it did work just as expected.  I wonder if
maybe you have a bad "boot" block on the cf card maybe?

On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 7:13 PM, Dan Hockey <icepuck2k at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been trying install 16.04 on a compact flash card using a cf to ide
> adapter.
> I've tried ext3 & ext4 and get to the point were it asks were to put the
> boot loader and that's where the install fails, can't install grub to mbr.
> The Ubuntu forums have old info about installing to a cf card.They claim
> it's treated just like a spinning hdd. I've tried an 8gb & a 64gb cf card.
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