DSL Embedded :: using boot options with dsl-embedded

I'm pretty new to linux and very new to DSL, so I hope some more experienced users can help me out.

My problem: I'm running dsl embedded in Win XP from a usb pen drive. It's on an older laptop with usb 1 and I'd like to be able to use toram make it run faster. However, as I don't get a boot prompt, I don't know how to do this.

I was thinking, perhaps, that the boot options were stored in a config file somewhere that I could modify from XP with a text editor, but I was unable to track it down (if it even exists).

I'd be very appreciative if anyone could tell me how to do it, or point me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance.
- HK

I am not sure how to give embedded boot codes, but I believe you can see the ones it boots with in /proc/cmdline. Not sure, but I would check it out.

As far as I know (from reading rather than from experience), the boot options are set in dsl-linux.sh for embedded in linux, and dsl-windows.bat for embedded in windows.

dsl.windows batch file reads:

REM Start qemu on windows.
@ECHO OFF

START qemu\qemu.exe -L qemu/ -enable-audio -localtime -kernel linux24 -initrd minirt24.gz -hda KNOPPIX/knoppix -hdb qemu/harddisk -append "qemu sb=0x220,5,1,1 frugal quiet"

CLS
EXIT

I dont know if you should tweek this file...

The "-append" parameter looks like the right place. For example, if you want toram then try:
-append "qemu sb=0x220,5,1,1 frugal quiet toram"

Like I said, I've never used embedded...this just looks like the right place to do it.

EDIT: toram isn't necessarily going to make it run faster unless you still have plenty of RAM left over from XP. XP uses a pile of RAM and CPU power itself, so running another operating system on top of it will be slower than running the os by itself, no matter what you do.

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