[mythtv-users] Trouvble booting with CF card

[David Brodbeck]

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.