Half and Half?
Forum: USB booting
Topic: Half and Half?
started by: Greens
Posted by Greens on Oct. 16 2006,01:17
Hello all.First, let me say that DSL is excellent - it truly proves that size doesn't matter. It's run wonderfully, when I've been able to get it to run. I'd also like to apologize if this has been asked before.
I had some trouble, initially, getting DSL set up on my Pen Drive; for some reason, I couldn't get the "Install to USB Pen Drive" option from within DSL to produce a working install, but I was able to get it to work by following a method I saw posted here.. < this topic >, I believe. I'm still having a small problem, however, and that is that I can't get it to work on my own computer.
My computer does support USB booting, and it does recognize the drive as bootable. But, when I choose the option to boot from the drive, it says it cannot find the kernel. I haven't had this problem on any other USB-boot compatible computer, though - it loads up, no problems whatever.
I'm also having trouble running it from within my OS - I use Fedora Core 5. It usually says it doesn't recognize the command, or nothing at all happens.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks again.
~Greens
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 16 2006,14:18
Maybe its the USB-HDD vs USB-ZIP compatibility issue.How are you trying to run it in FC5... using qemu in dsl-embedded? What commands are you using?
Posted by Greens on Oct. 16 2006,21:04
Well, I was fairly certain HDD would do it. My computer is practically identical to one of the other machines I got it to boot from. I suppose I hadn't considered that, though.. it is a possibility. How might I check for that?And, yes, I was trying to run it embedded. You may have to forgive me, I'm still relatively new to this sort of thing, but I tried to follow the Linux instructions under the readme file.. umm.. here:
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| --------------------------------------------------------------------------- To use the Virtual Machine provided by Qemu... When Running from Windows: Double click on 'dsl-windows.bat' When Running from Linux: Mount the pendrive and then from shell type: dsl-linux.sh If dsl-linux will not execute then see qemu-linux-notes.txt ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
I try to do this, and what I basically get is a message saying "dsl-linux.sh: command not found." After this I did consult the file it mentions, and after following that process(something about mounting it differently) received the same error message.
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 17 2006,14:45
Check your BIOS/motherboard manual.To execute something in the terminal, you have to specify the relative or full path, unless it is specified in the PATH environmental variable.
For example,
$ cd /path/to/my/dsl-embedded
$ ./dsl-linux.sh
where '.' signifies the current directory.
This is the same as
$ /path/to/my/dsl-embedded/dsl-linux.sh
It _may_ be easier for you to use emelFM though, if you don't like the console much, but if you're going to use the console - I'd suggest for you to find any guide for more info.
Posted by Greens on Oct. 17 2006,20:59
I really should be more specific.. once more I apologize.I did run this from within the directory containing that file. Gave me that error message at that point. I don't see much different in what you said to do there from what I did.. I may not have put the "./" before "dsl-linux.sh", though, so maybe I'll give that another shot...
Okay, I tried it again, and now it's giving me a "./dsl-linux.sh: Permission denied" message(even after I become root).
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| [Greens@localhost /]# su Password: [root@localhost /]# cd media [root@localhost media]# cd disk ((/media/disk is where it's mounted)) [root@localhost disk]# ./dsl-linux.sh bash: ./dsl-linux.sh: Permission denied |
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 18 2006,01:22
The media probably needs to be mounted as executable.| Quote |
| If dsl-linux will not execute then see qemu-linux-notes.txt |
Posted by Greens on Oct. 18 2006,02:30
I actually had tried that before, but once again, I forgot that "./". I gave that another shot just now and it worked perfectly. Sorry to waste your time over what was just a tiny oversight on my part. Thanks very much though.
It was really helpful.