adding toram

Forum: HD Install
Topic: adding toram
started by: gregc

Posted by gregc on Mar. 28 2007,13:01

SOLVED-------------I have successfully got DSL frugal-grub on my hard drive and seems to be running fine on my celeron 700 128 ram thinkpad. I would like to try the toram option but I dont know where or how to do it being new to dsl and linux.
Could someone give me the detailed steps.
Thanks
gregc

Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 28 2007,13:44

Two options....
Temporary:
When the Grub screen displays, select the system you want to boot and press "e" to edit the entry. You should be presented with at least a "kernel" line. Press "e" again to edit the selected line. Add "toram" (maybe it needs to be "dsl toram"?) to the line. Press "enter" to accept the change. Press "b" to boot.

Permanent:
Look for Grub's menu.lst file in /boot/grub on the partition where DSL was installed. This is the partition which has "boot" and "KNOPPIX" directories in its top level.
The menu.lst file should have at least one entry, which relates to the menu item or items listed at the grub screen. Add "toram" (maybe it needs to be "dsl toram"?) to the kernel line of your choice.

Posted by gregc on Mar. 28 2007,20:48

Quote (mikshaw @ Mar. 28 2007,08:44)

Permanent:
Look for Grub's menu.lst file in /boot/grub on the partition where DSL was installed. This is the partition which has "boot" and "KNOPPIX" directories in its top level.
The menu.lst file should have at least one entry, which relates to the menu item or items listed at the grub screen. Add "toram" (maybe it needs to be "dsl toram"?) to the kernel line of your choice.

Thanks-I dont know how to get into the grub menu.lst-Where and how do I get into that?-sorry but Im still learning

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Mar. 28 2007,22:07

If stage 2 grub is installed on the same partition as dsl,
edit /cdrom/boot/grub/menu.lst
with any text editor (beaver, vi, nano, etc) using root privileges.

Posted by gregc on Mar. 28 2007,23:26

Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ Mar. 28 2007,17:07)

If stage 2 grub is installed on the same partition as dsl,
edit /cdrom/boot/grub/menu.lst
with any text editor (beaver, vi, nano, etc) using root privileges.

I thought I had the problem solved when I found out the LILO install gives the option of adding toram while setting up the installation.So I reinstalled using LILO instead of grub
However now it wont boot and I get this:
GRUB loading,wait.....
ERROR 15
I think this will be an easy fix -ANYONE?
Im into a new topic as I now have TORAM-so will do new post in Other Help Topics and mark this as solved.

Posted by gregc on Mar. 29 2007,02:18

The answer to this problem for me was to install with lilo not grub because in lilo you have the option to add toram to the boot line.I just reinstalled using lilo.

Posted by gregc on Mar. 29 2007,02:38

I thought I solved the problem by reinstalling using the lilo option where it gave me the option of adding TORAM during the install. Now at boot I get :
GRUB loading,please wait.....
error 15

Posted by jpeters on Mar. 31 2007,03:25

Quote (mikshaw @ Mar. 28 2007,08:44)

I was surprised to find an additional menu.lst in /Ramdisk/boot/grub/ folder with root set to my swap drive (hda2). I checked with my other laptop (also a frugal grub install with the image on hda1)....same thing.

Posted by roberts on Mar. 31 2007,14:53

You are looking at a template. It is the one used for traditional hard drive install and as a template to the one used during frugal installation.

Posted by jpeters on Mar. 31 2007,16:50

Ah..thanks, roberts. I thought maybe I screwed something up...