USB booting :: tohd and fromhd

Hi,

what exactly does the tohd do?

I'm using DSL-N. My HD is NTFS on SATA. So I understand that tohd would fail. So I cheated by copying everything from my USB disk to the NTFS disk via windows. But that doesn't work. I'm wondering why.

I see a similar question posted on Jan. 15 2007
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....=+tohd=
which is having the same problem, but is un-answered.

Here is the details, FYI,

I think the knoppix/KNOPPIX file is the only one that the boot is looking for. It is there, on my NTFS disk:

$ ls -l knoppix/KNOPPIX
-r-xr-xr-x 1 knoppix knoppix 97063802 Jan 25 16:00 knoppix/KNOPPIX*

My PC is Dell, I enabled directl USB boot. then I boot with

Code Sample

fb1280x1024 fromhd=/dev/sda2

But it does not work:

Code Sample

$ mount | grep /cdrom
/dev/sdb1 on /cdrom type vfat (ro,nodiratime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1)

still booted from my USB key.

please help.

thanks

1. wrong forum section
2. re: tohd: afaik, it's for easily upgrading frugal installations, or just for running the base image off another media.
3. I don't think you can use ntfs with regular procedures... maybe bootfrom= might help you (see http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Cheat_Codes )

thanks for the reply,

sorry for choosing the wrong spot. I thought it was usb boot problem...

thanks for the link, was only checking the dsl cheat codes...

original here.