Re: Tomsrtbt on hard-drive with loadlin?

Hi,

Le Lundi 3 Novembre 2003 14:17, Tom Oehser a =E9crit :
> The way I put tomsrtbt on a hard drive is to boot tomsrtbt,
> mount the floppy, fdisk the hard drive, format a partition,
> blast everything over from the floppy and the ramdisk using
> the magical "cp" command, make a lilo.conf, fix up rational
> rc.S and rc.M and settings.s and rc.custom changes for the
> hard drive environment, run lilo, voila.

When you say blast everything:
Probably not /proc=20
What about /dev?
You'll probably say "What the hell a so newbie user wants to use tomsrtbt=
;o)!"

Note:
I didn't find any rc.M



> I have always taken the support position that if the above
> instructions are inadequate for anyone, they shouldn't be
> running tomsrtbt from hard drive, as it is not designed for
> that, and there are pitfalls, and there are better choices.

I'm trying to learn how to use loadlin,...
I like tomsrtbt.
So I wanted to try the way I said.
I didn't know I would be boring this way;o).

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> Definitely search the mailing list archives and the wiki for
> references to loadlin, as that option has been used somehow
> successfully by others, though I do not use loadlin myself.

I'll search again, but it wasn't clear enough to me.

Regards.
--
Stephane Boireau.



> On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Stephane Boireau wrote:
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> > Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 19:30:14 +0100
> > From: Stephane Boireau <[email protected]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [tomsrtbt] Tomsrtbt on hard-drive with loadlin?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to start Tomsrtbt from MSDOS [Menu] with loadlin.
> >
> > Here comes what I did:
> > mount -o loop tomsrtbt-2.0.103-Eltorito.288.img /mnt/disk
> >
> > cp /mnt/disk/bz2bzImage /mnt/win/loadlin/tomcd/
> > mv /mnt/win/loadlin/tomcd/bz2bzImage /mnt/win/loadlin/tomcd/rtbt
> >
> > cp /mnt/disk/initrd.bz2 /mnt/win/loadlin/tomcd/
> >
> > I put loadlin.exe in /mnt/win/loadlin/tomcd/ too.
> >
> > And in autoexec.bat:
> > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> > goto %config%
> >
> > :win
> > <<...>>
> > goto fin
> >
> > :tomsrtbt
> > mode con codepage prepare=3D((850) C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ega.cpi)
> > mode con codepage select=3D850
> > keyb fr,,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\keyboard.sys
> > smartdrv /C
> > c:
> > cd loadlin\tomcd
> > c:\loadlin\tomcd\loadlin c:\loadlin\tomcd\rtbt initrd=3Dinitrd.bz2
> > root=3D/dev/ram0 rw
> > goto fin
> > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> >
> > And when I select tomsrtbt, it starts booting but:
> >
> > ...
> > Partition check:
> >  hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
> >  hdc: hdc1 hdc2 <>
> > NTFS version 000607
> > [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 0,check=3Dn,conv=3Db,uid=3D0,gid=3D0,umask=3D0=
22,bmap]
> > [me=3D0x0,cs=3D0,#f=3D0,fs=3D0,ds=3D0,de=3D0,data=3D0,se=3D0,ts=3D0,l=
s=3D0,rc=3D0,fc=3D4294967295]
> > Transaction block size =3D 512
> > [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 0,check=3Dn,conv=3Db,uid=3D0,gid=3D0,umask=3D0=
22,bmap]
> > [me=3D0x0,cs=3D0,#f=3D0,fs=3D0,ds=3D0,de=3D0,data=3D0,se=3D0,ts=3D0,l=
s=3D0,rc=3D0,fc=3D4294967295]
> > Transaction block size =3D 512
> > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
> >
> > Where did I do a mistake?
> >
> > Thank you very much.
> >
> > PS:
> > If there is another solution to put Tomsrtbt on hard-drive it interes=
t me=20
too.
> > --
> > Stephane Boireau
> > Personne ressource TICE du coll=E8ge Le Hameau =E0 Bernay (27)
> >
> >
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Stephane Boireau
Personne ressource TICE du coll=E8ge Le Hameau =E0 Bernay (27)