Thank you for the time, energy and brains that are going into this.
Mine loaded fine and ran a photo interval script fine. But I can only auto-boot it. I can't manual boot by loading a new firmware. (Which means, I think, I'm stuck with my 4gb card, and can't use my partitioned 16gb card).
Good news: that's not true, it's just the other way around !
Manually booting CHDK (thru the 'Firm Update' menu) should work off all file systems (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32), while autoboot
requires FAT12 or FAT16, and is therefor limited to 4 GB maximum partition size.
hth,
wim
I got partition booting working, as mentioned above. And no, manual booting doesn't work. AFAIK, camera checks for PS.FI2 file in card, which is different for each card. I don't think G11 development has gotten that far yet, which is why ERR99 tells users to make card bootable with cardtricks.
The problem in Windows is that it can't detect more than one partition on removable drives; but that's just a driver thing, not hardware.
Follow the guide here, look for the title "On flash drive only the first partition works". Basically, you're going to replace the driver used by Windows on your card reader, and it will be detected as a drive, much like USB hard drives.
Once done, you can format the SD card as you would HDD's. Partition one as FAT, two as FAT32 etc. Put CHDK on both partitions, and use cardtricks to make partition one bootable, and you're set. Bonus is now you don't need to use partition swap on CHDK before plugging into computer. =]