Damn Small Linux - Not!

ankuryu · Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 2

I got a DELL Latitude D520 with 1 GB Ram and Dual Core Intel. running Win XP Professional. I tried to run DSL N Embedded however the thing hangs up.

I get the boot : prompt
and I tried 'dsl qemu frugal' at the boot : prompt, the top part of the DOS screen goes technicolor and the dos prompt window hangs up.

Any Ideas ?

My computers has the 945 INtel Graphic Card where the main memory is shared for Video purpose.

ankuryu · Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 2

i Just checked out the CD Rom version, it seems to work perfectly on my Laptop
however the Embedded one does not work

fredvej · Joined: 07 Sep 2006 Posts: 4

I've made a bootable USB with DSL 3.1 , DSL-N 0.1RC4 and Knoppix 5.01 , and I can boot DSL-N vith this entry in syslinux.cfg :

LABEL dsln
KERNEL lin-dsln
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init initrd=minidsln.gz nomce noapic qemu frugal lang=dk BOOT_IMAGE=dsln01rc4 knoppix_name=dsln01rc4

The DSL image must be named /knoppix/knoppix. To avoid same filenames I have renamed the DSL-N image to /knoppix/dsln01rc4. All files for the DSL-N are extracted from the ISO and renamed to fit.

I cannot use this for running DSL-N embedded in Windows. It seems to scan all /dev/hd* and cannot find the /knoppix file system. To run embedded I have tried

qemu\qemu.exe -L qemu/ -no-kqemu -m 128 -localtime -kernel lin-dsln -initrd minidsln.gz -hda KNOPPIX/dsln01rc4 -hdb qemu/harddisk -append "qemu sb=0x220,5,1,5 frugal quiet modules=hdb noscsi nousb nofirewire atapicd noideraid noacpi acpi=off noapm noagp ide1=noprobe ide2=noprobe nomce lang=dk host=fvedslqemu knoppix_name=dsln01rc4"

and removing "knoppix_name=dsln01rc4" makes no difference. I've even tried naming the image file /knoppix/knoppix but to no avail.

fredvej · Joined: 07 Sep 2006 Posts: 4

I just tried running Knoppix embedded, and it fails the same way as DSL-N, scanning /dev/hd* and not finding /knoppix.

When comparing DSL 3.1 embedded with the DSL 3.1 ISO, the minirt24.gz files are different. Maybe this is where it fails.

Does the minirt have to be prepared for embedded to be able to work with qemu ?

roberts · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 320 Location: OC CA USA

You can use the qemu -cdrom option to load dsl-nRC4.iso and use it as a live CD. I have not seem Qemu support kernel 2.6 in the same way as 2.4/dsl did.