iB::Topic::Booting with files NOT in root dir

	Damn Small Linux :: Damn Small Linux Board The DSL Forums

» Welcome Guest
[ Log In :: Register ]

Damn Small Linux Board » Damn Small Linux » USB booting » Booting with files NOT in root dir - HELP

		Mini-ITX Boards Sale, Fanless BareBones Mini-ITX, Bootable 1G DSL USBs, 533MHz Fanless PC <-- SALE $200 each!
		Get The Official Damn Small Linux Book. DSL Market , Great VPS hosting provided by Tektonic

Pages: (3) </ 1 [2] 3 >/

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

Topic: Booting with files NOT in root dir - HELP

< Next Oldest | Next Newest >

Caspar_s

Group: Members
Posts: 105
Joined: Jan. 2005

Posted: April 13 2005,19:35

Is it just dsl? Or do slax and knoppix have the same problem?
(just thinking that because it is based on knoppix and is looking for knoppix/knoppix)
If it is just dsl, try and see how knoppix is getting around it.

choekstr

Group: Members
Posts: 12
Joined: April 2005

Posted: April 13 2005,20:01

It seems to be both slax and dsl, but I am not thinking they are both from different issues. I haven't tried full knoppix yet to find *that* pattern.

I think the dsl issue is a finding of the knoppix filesystem and the slax is a hardware detection (running under vmware while ironing out bugs for the quick reboot aspect).

I am really really limited in my "limited" shell as I don't even have ls! I have mount, but I can't see directories to know where I can mount to, can't mkdir, can't see what devices I have or it found, the only think I have of any help is lsmod (might be a good todo to give us some decent diagnostic tools in this limited shell)

lsmod shows I these modules loaded:
usb-storage
usb-uhci
usbcore
ataraid
ide-scsi

The last messages I see:
Welcome to the KNOPPIX live Linux-on-CD!
Scanning for USB/Firewire devices... Done.
Enabling DMA acceleration for: hdc [VMware Virtual IDE CDROM Drive]
Can't Find KNOPPIX file system, sorry.
Dropping you to a (very limited) shell.
Press reset button to quit."

Ugh.