Shared Live and Embedded usb
Forum: USB booting
Topic: Shared Live and Embedded usb
started by: Siacono
Posted by Siacono on Jan. 25 2006,16:01
I did my shared install per the 5 way and the below quote to my extent of searching and searching does not hold true.
| Quote | DSL-embedded can share a hard drive with a common DSL installation by using the 5way script. More information on the 5way script can be found on a download mirror, inside the 5way tarball.
Unless you assembled your pendrive DSL/Qemu software other than the standard, you should already have the boot option qemu in syslinux.cfg. This will allow access to the virtual harddisk as hdb when booting from BIOS.
You should see an entry in /etc/fstab which maps /dev/harddisk /mnt/hdb
When you backup/restore you do that to a device, the device for the virtual harddisk is simply harddisk. This device should already be populated in the backup/restore gui.
To share your myDSL extensions use mydsl=harddisk
If you are running dsl-embedded then it is probably most desireable to share a common persistent store between the virtual environment of Qemu and a reglar boot via BIOS. That would imply for both booting methods to use the virtual harddisk. |
From all my attempts the live bios boot does not have write access to the /dev/harddrive mounted on /mnt/hdb.
So I use a seperate partition on my pendrive for backup/restore which is cool for live bios boot but then I cannot access the second /mnt/sda5 partition when booted qemu under windoze, qemu doesn't have access to the usb. So the question is.....
How do I get both Live Bios and embedded qemu to share the same backup/restore dir to which would be writable to both.
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