HD Install :: Assistance in setting up CF card
If you search the fourms the answer was posted. http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....nd+lilo
If you look at the frugal script you will see the all the parts that I added, including embedding lilo. It is the lilo that is holding you up. As user Fred has posted in above link he manually applied a different lilo.conf.
I see the perl script also copied over the bugs from the orginal frugal.
I had already seen that post roberts.
Anyway, I have it booting from Compact Flash card fine now.
The CF card i am using (viking 128mb) is b0rked as it does not correctly allow DMA access to it on an IDE channel (i think sandisk / toshiba cards _can_ do this). DSL / Feather / ... see's the CF card on an IDE slot and automatically thinks it is a DMA enabled channel. Trying to read /write info off therefore causes errors 
Ah well, time to order some new CF cards then I guess.... 
Couldn't you boot with "knoppix nodma"?
I tried sending ide=nodma to the kernel but it still detected as dma enabled no matter what i did.
I have ended up ripping out the Feather / DSL libraries and bins and placing them with peeweelinux scripts and installer etc to find quite a nice solution to most of my probs.
original here.