HD frugal 3.4


Forum: HD Install
Topic: HD frugal 3.4
started by: sheldonisaac

Posted by sheldonisaac on July 03 2007,15:28
May I ask for help with 3.4?

When I try to boot from HD, it says kernel panic, no init found.

This is on /dev/hda3
drwxrwxr-x    3 root     0            1024 Jul  3  2007 .
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     0            1024 Jul  3  2007 ..
drwxrwxr-x    2 root     0            1024 Jul  3  2007 grub
-r--r--r--    1 root     0          994807 Jan 15 03:36 linux24
-r--r--r--    1 root     0        50478808 Jul  1 14:47 minirt24.gz

This is in grub/
drwxrwxr-x    2 root     0            1024 Jul  3  2007 .
drwxrwxr-x    3 root     0            1024 Jul  3  2007 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     0            7508 Apr  9 21:23 e2fs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--    1 root     0            1827 Jul  3  2007 menu.lst
-rw-r--r--    1 root     0             512 Apr  9 21:22 stage1
-rw-r--r--    1 root     0          105332 Apr  9 21:22 stage2

This is part of menu.lst

title DSL
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/linux24 norestore frugal write desktop=jwm
initrd /boot/minirt24.gz

Posted by curaga on July 03 2007,15:44
Where's the KNOPPIX image? Your install didn't work..
No reinstall needed, just copy the KNOPPIX directory from the cd to hda3...

Posted by sheldonisaac on July 03 2007,16:47
Thanks, Curaga, but I am still a newbie - I don't understand a lot, eg

"dsl-3.4-initrd.iso version has the KNOPPIX image packed in the initial ramdisk. This means it is very easy to setup a PXE DSL server.

It also means the entire system always loads into ram. You will need 128MB ram for this version. It will boot as a typical isolinux version and thereby eliminates the scan for the KNOPPIX image"

Posted by mikshaw on July 03 2007,18:45
Your kernel and initrd are not in (hd0,2)/boot, although grub is looking for them there.
You may need to change menu.lst:
Code Sample
title DSL
root (hd0,2)
kernel /linux24 norestore frugal write desktop=jwm
initrd /minirt24.gz


If that doesn't work you might need to create a boot directory on hda3 and put the kernel and initrd in there.

Posted by curaga on July 04 2007,08:52
Oh, that's the pxe version.. forget what I said
Posted by sheldonisaac on July 04 2007,12:54
Thanks for your help - sorry I wasn't clear enough - unlike you, I am only a superficial user.

Let me try again.

My previous frugal DSL 3.3 was (booted via GRUB) on /dev/hda3, amd I want to have the new one there.

I booted Linux, and did

mount -t vfat /dev/hdb7  /mnt/eye/

cd /tmp

mount -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt/eye/Sources/MiscSors/dsl-3.4-initrd.iso  ./

Then /tmp contained a directory called  boot  , and that contained one called  isolinux .

And that in turn contained several files, as below. I think you can figure out what is where.

So now how do I get a GRUB frugal install to /dev/hda3 ?
Thanks much,  Sheldon.

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dr-xr-xr-x    3 root     0            2048 Apr  6 23:11 boot

dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     0            2048 Jul  1 14:48 isolinux

-r--r--r--    1 root     0            2048 Jul  1 14:48 boot.cat
-r--r--r--    1 root     0        50478808 Jul  1 14:47 minirt24.gz
-r--r--r--    1 root     0            9404 Jul  1 02:40 isolinux.bin
-r--r--r--    1 root     0             123 Jan 15 03:36 boot.msg
-r--r--r--    1 root     0            1592 Jan 15 03:36 f2
-r--r--r--    1 root     0            1595 Jan 15 03:36 f3
-r--r--r--    1 root     0             256 Jan 15 03:36 german.kbd
-r--r--r--    1 root     0            2452 Jan 15 03:36 isolinux.cfg
-r--r--r--    1 root     0          994807 Jan 15 03:36 linux24
-r--r--r--    1 root     0           33780 Jan 15 03:36 logo.16

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 04 2007,13:54
If you are still booting off hda3's grub, all you have to do is edit your menu.lst as mikshaw suggested.
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