| hamada  
 
 
 
 
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|  | Posted: Mar. 26 2006,15:05 |  |  How to boot DSL using Grub !!
 
 If you are doing a remastering and want to check that everything si working you have 2 choices:
 - Using a BIOS emulator, like qemu that you can find in DSL Embedded, infortunately its rather slow.
 - Running the compressed image from Hard Drive or USB key wich is event faster than CD-ROM.
 1- you need to creat a subdirectory in the /boot directory named /boot/boot.dsl/isolinux/
 and copy there the files linux24 and minirt24.gz from /isolinux/linux24 of the DSL.
 2-Copy the /KNOPPIX directory to your root directory of any hard disk.(ext2/3, reiserfs, vfat are supported).
 3- edit the file /boot/grub/menu.lst wich contain the boot settings, you must have root previlege to do so.
 Here is a copy of my boot setting :
 
 # grub.conf generated by anaconda
 #
 # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
 # NOTICE:  You do not have a /boot partition.  This means that
 #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
 #          root (hd0,4)
 #          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda5
 #          initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
 #boot=/dev/hda
 default=0
 timeout=10
 splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
 title Fedora Linux-Plus Core 1
 root (hd0,4)
 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdb=ide-scsi rhgb
 initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img
 title Damn Small Linux #The name that appear in the Grub menu (you can change it if you want)
 root (hd0,4)
 kernel /boot/boot.knoppix/isolinux/linux24 5 fromhd=/dev/hda1
 #number 5 mean the boot runlevel(2=boot in text only mode,5= start X window)
 # fromhd mean the device or partition that contain the /KNOPPIX directory(hda for hard drive,sda for USB key)
 initrd /boot/boot.knoppix/isolinux/minirt24.gz
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