thanks sounds better i dont know this lilo or grub exactly,
again, there is no floppy!
i dont bother using lilo or any other bootmanager, i just want to boot the image from hd like the imgage boots from cdrom.
all i want is a non confusing step by step information how to install and point any (lilo?) bootmanager to the dsl-image bootrecord on HD, dsl image on HD NO FLOPPY.
Would be very great if this option would be a button from the dsl-live-menu
i hope if i search "frugal" i ll find help without mentioning the word floppy. everything boots from HD, so i dont want a floppy
the term "install" is confusing, but boot from HD *should* be a Forumthread like boot from USB like boot from CDROM
Quote (ke4nt1 @ Feb. 27 2005,08:36)
Also, the 'bootfrom' option needs the partition, not the path. i.e. - not " dsl bootfrom=/home/dsl/iso.iso " , but " dsl bootfrom=/dev/hda1/iso.iso "
73 ke4nt
I tried this but it doesn't work. It gives me a message along the lines of
"Could not find image /dev/hda6/home/dsl/iso.iso"
Any other suggestions?Is your image located in:
C:\home\dsl\iso.iso
if it is a Windows partition, or:
/mnt/hda1/home/dsl/iso.iso
if it is a Linux partition?
and you need to make sure that your uppercase/lowercase letters are correct.
For example,
C:\Temp\Knoppix3.4\knoppix.iso
is different from
c:\temp\knoppix3.4\knoppix.isoroot@ttyp0[dsl]#
lilo -T table=/dev/hdc
*270 meg hd*
Type Boot Start End Sector #sectors 1 FAT32 * 0:1:1 185:11:48 48 107088 2 Linux Native 186:0:1 371:11:48 107136 107136 3 Linux Native 372:0:1 557:11:48 214272 107136 4 Linux Swap 558:0:1 916:11:48 321408 206784
root@ttyp0[dsl]# lilo -A /dev/hdc /dev/hdc1 root@ttyp0[dsl]# lilo -M /dev/hdc Fatal: creat /boot/boot.1600: Read-only file system root@ttyp0[dsl]# lilo -M /dev/hdc1 Fatal: /dev/hdc1 is not a master device with a primary parition table root@ttyp0[dsl]# lilo -M /dev/hdc2 Fatal: /dev/hdc2 is not a master device with a primary parition table root@ttyp0[dsl]# lilo -M /dev/hdc3 Fatal: /dev/hdc3 is not a master device with a primary parition table root@ttyp0[dsl]# lilo -M /dev/hdc4 Fatal: /dev/hdc4 is not a master device with a primary parition table
i will reformat this drive in whatever style you want, please advice me a TYPE number from cfdisk TYPE table somebody suggested vfat no vfat entry from 100 entries
if i run hd install from the menu with multiple users a one time lilo screen appears after reboot. Only one time and i need the frugal version not the hdinstall version.
SO AN SCRIPTING AND OR LILO EXPERT IS NEEDED i think for a geek it takes 5 min, for me it took already hours. if it works ONE TIME on the hdinstall script, how to script it different and permanent?
thousands of users will find this helpful, anyone with an old laptop or old pc or malicious or newbie users who reconfigure and destroy or change system data bz accident everytime they boot their computer
so an iso boot from hd without disk or cd or usb would be great. maybe later someone writes a script for a onetime boot from windows which restores the windows mbr on the next boot.
but at the moment i would be glad to see a working lilo script right here permanent for the frugal boot from hd.
someone hinted me to use grub.dsl but even this is cumbersome, find the download, where to install, how to bind it on boot bla ...Before you start using LILO or GRUB on this thing, please check the syntax of your "bootfrom" parameter.
Leave a copy of the *.iso file on your hard drive.
Then boot from a CD with the appropriate "bootfrom" command to test it out.
If it works, you may be able to get something going with LILO or GRUB.
Unfortunately, the "bootfrom" command usually requires access to a /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX file in order to start using the *.iso, so unless you edit your minirt24.gz file and copy over some drivers it will be hard to accomplish this without also copying the /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX file over to your hard drive.
An easier approach would be to create a poorman's install with a slight tweak, IE: First copy the files on the livecd over to your hard drive.
Then create a boot floppy and copy over the linux24 and minirt24.gz files to your hard drive and then boot using LILO or GRUB and reference these files for your bootloader along with your desired "append" commands.
Finally, another option would be to first boot into MSDOS or FREEDOS and then use the loadlin program to continute with the boot process.
You could even add a "Boot:" prompt to your autoexec.bat file and then add it to the loadlin append line.
Search the forums for keyword:
loadlin*
and search ALL FORUMS and search FROM THE BEGINNING or NEWER
Hopefully one of these options will give you the solution that you are looking for.Next Page...
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