Re: [coLinux-users] Booting off a USB flash drive

[Avi B. <avi...@gm...>]

Hello again,

I think writing a launcher that will use a default .ini file as
command line parameters for colinux-daemon will indeed do the trick,
though I have another problem now.
I tried running colinux off my USB drive on a computer which doesn't
have colinux already installed, and it won't boot.
The output colinux gives is: 
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colinux: manager open: last error: The system cannot find the file specified.
Cooperative Linux Daemon, 0.6.2
Compiled on Sat Feb  5 10:19:28 2005

using 'vmlinux' as kernel image
configuring 32 MB of virtual RAM
mapping cobd0 to \??\E:\coLinux\busybox.img
kernel boot parameters: 'root=/dev/cobd0'

colinux: manager open: last error: The system cannot find the file specified.
daemon: exit code 87c09c01
daemon: error - CO_RC_ERROR_ERROR, line 39, file colinux/user/monitor.o (62)
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The line used to run it: 
"colinux-daemon mem=32 kernel=vmlinux cobd0=busybox.img root=/dev/cbd0"

This same line works fine on my personal computer which has colinux
already installed with the win32 installer.

Avi.

On Apr 12, 2005 6:11 AM, Sam Moffatt <pa...@gm...> wrote:
> This is a known issue, the proposed solution was to have a 'colinux
> launcher' style application that determined where it was running from,
> and filled the blanks and wrote out a configuration file and started
> coLinux.
> 
> I'm sure no one would object if you wrote a program to do such a task,
> but that is the only method available at the moment.
> 
> On Apr 12, 2005 7:36 AM, Avi Berkovich <avi...@gm...> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I want to boot a busybox image off a USB flash drive, and I stumbled
> > over the following problem:
> >
> > if I omit the entire path to the dist image (in order to boot without
> > depending on the host system) in the <block_device> element in the xml
> > conf file, coLinux will go into Kernel Panic on boot with the error
> > message:  ``Cannot open root device "cobd0" or unknown-block(117,0)
> > please append a correct "root=" boot option ".
> >
> > (By the way, my boot params: <bootparams>root=/dev/cobd0</bootparams>)
> >
> > For example, this works:  <block_device index="0"
> > path="\DosDevices\I:\coLinux\busybox" />
> >                      this doesn't: <block_device index="0" path="busybox" />
> >
> > Ofcource, I run colinux-daemon.exe from the dist image path.
> >
> > Hope anyone else has already tried this, and maybe has other tips to
> > using coLinux with a USB flash drive.
> >
> > Avi.
> >