Search Members Help

» Welcome Guest
[ Log In :: Register ]

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: (2) </ 1 [2] >/

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

reply to topic new topic new poll
Topic: HDBOOT "live" from HD  no floppy no cdrom no lilo, (just boot 50 meg iso, not "installed")< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
cbagger01 Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 4264
Joined: Oct. 2003
Posted: Feb. 28 2005,17:26 QUOTE

You should not copy the CDROM image to a partition (IE: /dev/hd?1).

Try again, with /dev/hdc instead of /dev/hdc1

FYI, a quick linux primer on IDE devices:

/dev/hda  =  Primary IDE controller, MASTER drive
/dev/hdb  =  Primary IDE controller, SLAVE drive
/dev/hdc  =  Secondary IDE controller, MASTER drive
/dev/hdd  =  Secondary IDE controller, SLAVE drive

while:
/dev/hda1 = The first partition on the hda drive

Most computers are built with the PC hard drive as the primary master, aka
/dev/hda

and the PC CDROM drive is the secondary master, aka
/dev/hdc

which is why I used the command syntax above.

Good Luck.
Back to top
Profile PM 
ffff
Unregistered






Posted: Mar. 01 2005,11:58 QUOTE

Someone on the Knoppix.net forums has been able to boot an iso from the hdd using a grub loader (for windows) and an addition to the boot.ini file.
I've used it awhile ago, but don't know how to modify to run any bootable iso, at the moment it was only done for knoppix.

You can check the link here
Back to top
melontree Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 16
Joined: Feb. 2005
Posted: Mar. 02 2005,13:24 QUOTE

thnaks for the hda ... hdc primer.
maybe after sucessful boot it wont run on a transferred system with hda. so i have to change the plugs

and ffff even on knoppix board its an issue.

its simply too much for beginners or end users to read more than one page of instructions.

as long as its an issue
it should be solved.

best with lilo.

again the

sudo dsl-hdinstall

does all,
really all burn and write,
except a lasting boot record.

it already does an one time boot record,
but no lasting.

maybe i have to analyse this script.

knows anyone wheter this boot record or this one time boot prompt is in the ram and not on the disk?


--------------
i want a F2 boot option: transfer compressed dsl to hd (leave it compressed) and install a boot record on these hd to boot every time the compressed version from hd
Back to top
Profile PM 
7 replies since Feb. 27 2005,13:51 < Next Oldest | Next Newest >

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

Pages: (2) </ 1 [2] >/
reply to topic new topic new poll
Quick Reply: HDBOOT "live" from HD  no floppy no cdrom no lilo

Do you wish to enable your signature for this post?
Do you wish to enable emoticons for this post?
Track this topic
View All Emoticons
View iB Code