The command listed below will make a new partition table on your compact flash card.

	Warning
	Ensure that FLASH_DEV and FLASH_PART are assigned correct values as described in Section 2.1, “Environment Variables”.

sudo chmod o+rw $FLASH_DEV $FLASH_PART
fdisk $FLASH_DEV <<EOF
o
n
 p
 1


t
 6
a
 1
w
EOF
fdisk -l $FLASH_DEV

The CF will use syslinux in the Master Boot Record (MBR). Syslinux is a lightweight boot loader to start the Linux operating system from FAT12 or FAT16 filesystems .

Download, compile and install syslinux using the following commands: ^[15]

wget -P $DL_DIR http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/syslinux-2.11.tar.bz2
mkdir -p $PRJ_DIR/bootldr
tar -C $PRJ_DIR/bootldr -xvjf $DL_DIR/syslinux-2.11.tar.bz2
cd $PRJ_DIR/bootldr/syslinux-2.11
make syslinux

Download, compile and install ms-sys using the following commands: ^[16]

wget -P $DL_DIR http://cogent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ms-sys/ms-sys-2.0.0.tgz
tar -C $PRJ_DIR/bootldr -xvzf $DL_DIR/ms-sys-2.0.0.tgz
cd $PRJ_DIR/bootldr/ms-sys-2.0.0
make

Write the MBR, format the file system and install the syslinux boot loader using the commands below.

pushd $PRJ_DIR/bootldr
  ms-sys-2.0.0/bin/ms-sys -s $FLASH_DEV
  sudo mkdosfs $FLASH_PART
  sudo syslinux-2.11/syslinux $FLASH_PART
popd