Problem with booting from Compact Flash card

[Joerg Schoppet]

Joerg Schoppet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does anybody here on the list has experiences with Ubuntu 7.04
> running on soekris 5501 (http://www.soekris.com/net5501.html)?
>
> I've made a PXE-installation on a CF-card and everything went well:
>  hdb1 - root-filesystem hdb5 - swap
>
> When I reboot the system everything went well (GRUB, ...) until it
> wants to mount the root-filesystem, then I get the error: ALERT!
> /dev/hdb1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
>
> And a "BusyBox"-shell is opened.
>
> If I start a rescue-system from PXE, it detects correctly the card.
>  Are there some special modules, which have to been loaded? Or is
> there any other tip/trick/hint to start Ubuntu on a 5501?
>
> By the way: An actual debian stable works out of the box.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Joerg Schoppet
Just for information:
Gutsy: also not loading
Dapper: loading

So, what has changed between dapper and Feisty?

Joerg