From: John v. G. <jo...@gr...> - 2004-12-21 01:18:57
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Hello List, New to the list and devil Linux (used to use IPCop). I have got a problem with booting the cd. After (partly) loading the initrd.gz my system will reboot. Every time. It's a Pentium I with IDE Hd on IDE1, an 32X cdrom at IDE2 as master, floppydrive, ide harddisk 250 MB and a SCSI disk 1 gb adaptec 152x driver. (just tried the sentry iso with boots up perfectly even recognizes my scsi drive.) I tried all the different images 486, 586 and 686 except server but all have the same problem. Solutions anyone? greetings, John |
From: Michal W. <wei...@ka...> - 2005-01-20 12:50:18
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Hello, I have tried to use DL but has a problem. I have file devil-linux.1.2.2.i486.tar.bz2 downloaded. Tried to burn bootcd.iso image to CD. Burning process was successful and I was able to mount cd and see root tree on mounted cd. Tried to chroot and everything works.Than i tried to boot from that CD on another computer without success. Boot from CDROM failed. I tried another PC with the same result. Than i read this list and found some info about isolinux and boot emulation, but i think it is not my problem. Those PCs are not too old and are able to boot from Fedora 3 rescue CD, which is using isolinux too. I tried to mount bootcd.iso, copy all files to HDD, and than make iso fs for myself. Than my isofs file have double size and after burn to same CD-RW it's booting fine. I had use the same parameters as developers use to make bootcd.iso original file, but my iso image has double size and works. Please, make me clear with this mess, i don't really know what is going on. I know -z switch of mkisofs and i have used it too, but my iso file has double size anyway. Thanks a lot Michal |
From: Oliver N. <dig...@gm...> - 2005-01-20 15:03:10
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Boot from CDROM failed. I tried another PC with the same > result. I have similar problems: all versions below 1.2.2 booting fine, but the actual does not on my machine. The strange thing is, that on other systems the 1.2.2 boots fine, i don´t know what happened, so i thought it was my "old" PIII which cause the problem, but after your message it seems there is a problem with the isolinux. Olli -- 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++ |
From: Michal W. <wei...@se...> - 2005-01-20 15:53:41
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On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 16:03, Oliver Niesner wrote: > Boot from CDROM failed. I tried another PC with the same > > result.=20 >=20 > I have similar problems: all versions below 1.2.2 booting fine, but the > actual does not on my machine. > The strange thing is, that on other systems the 1.2.2 boots fine, i don= =C2=B4t > know what happened, so i thought it was my "old" PIII which cause the > problem, but after your message it seems there is a problem with the > isolinux. >=20 My PC is AMD Duron 850 on MSI board 3 years old. All stuff like Fedora Core 3 with isolinux booting fine.=20 I thing that problem is, tahat file bootcd.iso is compressed some way, and bioses can't understand the boot sector. When i tried to remake my own iso image, everything works fine, but CD has about 400 MB insted of 200MB of original !=20 Michal |
From: Bruce S. <bw...@ar...> - 2005-01-20 16:21:25
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> > > Boot from CDROM failed. I tried another PC with the same > > > result. > > > > I have similar problems: all versions below 1.2.2 booting fine, but the > > actual does not on my machine. > > The strange thing is, that on other systems the 1.2.2 boots fine, i don´t > > know what happened, so i thought it was my "old" PIII which cause the > > problem, but after your message it seems there is a problem with the > > isolinux. > > > My PC is AMD Duron 850 on MSI board 3 years old. All stuff like Fedora > Core 3 with isolinux booting fine. > > I thing that problem is, tahat file bootcd.iso is compressed some way, > and bioses can't understand the boot sector. When i tried to remake my > own iso image, everything works fine, but CD has about 400 MB insted of > 200MB of original ! It uses the "zisofs" compressed ISO filesystem, see "mkzftree". The problem is it's been using zisofs for ALL of the 1.2 releases and many releases before that. And I checked CVS, and the script that builds the ISO hasn't been changed since September 5th. (1.2.1 was released on Nov 28th) And none of the source packages that have anything to do with zisofs appear to have been chanced since 1.2.1. I'm at a loss to what could be causing this. - BS |
From: Heiko Z. <he...@zu...> - 2005-01-20 17:08:25
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>> > > Boot from CDROM failed. I tried another PC with the same >> > > result. >> > >> > I have similar problems: all versions below 1.2.2 booting fine, but >> the >> > actual does not on my machine. >> > The strange thing is, that on other systems the 1.2.2 boots fine, i >> don´t >> > know what happened, so i thought it was my "old" PIII which cause the >> > problem, but after your message it seems there is a problem with the >> > isolinux. >> > >> My PC is AMD Duron 850 on MSI board 3 years old. All stuff like Fedora >> Core 3 with isolinux booting fine. >> >> I thing that problem is, tahat file bootcd.iso is compressed some way, >> and bioses can't understand the boot sector. When i tried to remake my >> own iso image, everything works fine, but CD has about 400 MB insted of >> 200MB of original ! > > It uses the "zisofs" compressed ISO filesystem, see "mkzftree". > > The problem is it's been using zisofs for ALL of the 1.2 releases and > many releases before that. > > And I checked CVS, and the script that builds the ISO hasn't been > changed since September 5th. (1.2.1 was released on Nov 28th) > > And none of the source packages that have anything to do with zisofs > appear to have been chanced since 1.2.1. > > I'm at a loss to what could be causing this. Can you guys give a little more detailed error description? Does it start loading isolinux? What error message do you get? Does it start loading the kernel ? -- Regards Heiko Zuerker http://www.devil-linux.org |
From: Michal W. <wei...@se...> - 2005-01-20 18:53:34
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On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 18:07, Heiko Zuerker wrote: > > appear to have been chanced since 1.2.1. > > > > I'm at a loss to what could be causing this. > > Can you guys give a little more detailed error description? > > Does it start loading isolinux? > What error message do you get? > Does it start loading the kernel ? I have not get any errors. Just booting from CDROM failed from BIOS and booting process continues from other places defined (HDD). No data are loaded from CD, iso linux doesn't start ! But CD is readable, i can mount this CD under my Fedora Linux on my workstation i can read all files from that CD. I tried to use file utility to bootcd.iso file and got this, looks right. bootcd.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'CDROM ' (bootable) After that i made a copy of the burned CD (copied files tree), and make my own oso image. No changes of isolinux, initrd ! Just mount original iso CD, which doesn't boot, copy files, and start mkisofs with these parameters mkisofs -b boot/isolinux.bin -c boot/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o ../boot-DL-moje.iso -J -l -L -R -z -p "he...@de..." -P "Devil Linux Developer Team" -A "Devil-Linux v1.2.2" -iso-level 2 . Than i have burn new iso immage, which has 400MB size. So new CD booting fine and DL is working well for me. So original CD iso image is not work, after recreate iso immage i can use iso linux. No other error messages. Thank you Michal |
From: Oliver N. <dig...@gm...> - 2005-01-20 19:17:57
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>>> > > Boot from CDROM failed. I tried another PC with the same >>> > > result. >>> > >>> > I have similar problems: all versions below 1.2.2 booting fine, but >>> the >>> > actual does not on my machine. >>> > The strange thing is, that on other systems the 1.2.2 boots fine, i >>> don´t >>> > know what happened, so i thought it was my "old" PIII which cause the >>> > problem, but after your message it seems there is a problem with the >>> > isolinux. >>> > >>> My PC is AMD Duron 850 on MSI board 3 years old. All stuff like Fedora >>> Core 3 with isolinux booting fine. >>> >>> I thing that problem is, tahat file bootcd.iso is compressed some way, >>> and bioses can't understand the boot sector. When i tried to remake my >>> own iso image, everything works fine, but CD has about 400 MB insted of >>> 200MB of original ! >> >> It uses the "zisofs" compressed ISO filesystem, see "mkzftree". >> >> The problem is it's been using zisofs for ALL of the 1.2 releases and >> many releases before that. >> >> And I checked CVS, and the script that builds the ISO hasn't been >> changed since September 5th. (1.2.1 was released on Nov 28th) >> >> And none of the source packages that have anything to do with zisofs >> appear to have been chanced since 1.2.1. >> >> I'm at a loss to what could be causing this. HZ> Can you guys give a little more detailed error description? HZ> Does it start loading isolinux? No! HZ> What error message do you get? DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER! HZ> Does it start loading the kernel ? NO! Here some detail about my configuration: Processor: PIII 500 MHz Board: Gigabyte Intel 440BX (GA6BXE00C-00) BIOS: Award 4.51PG RAM: 256MB Hallo, Heiko! Ich habe einiges ausprobiert: 1) anderes Laufwerk 2) andere Rohlinge 3) anderer Brenner 4) Bootlaufwerk an anderem IDE-BUS hat leider alles nix gebracht! Das wirklich kuriose ist, dass auf anderen (moderneren?) PCs alles einwandfrei funktioniert, ich habe mindestens vier unterschiedliche Systeme ausprobiert, alles ok! Weiß momentan genausoviel wie Bruce - ich bin wohl auf einem gutem Weg ;-) -- Best regards, Oliver mailto:dig...@gm... |
From: Heiko Z. <he...@zu...> - 2005-01-20 19:49:14
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Hi, I will prepare a new ISO file and will use an updated isolinux and updated mkisofs. It shouldn't be the compressed ISO format, since the isolinux boot file is not compressed. It will take me a day or two to prepare everything. I'll post an answer here, once the test ISO is uploaded. -- Regards Heiko Zuerker http://www.devil-linux.org |
From: Heiko Z. <he...@zu...> - 2005-01-21 15:47:56
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> I will prepare a new ISO file and will use an updated isolinux and updated > mkisofs. > > It shouldn't be the compressed ISO format, since the isolinux boot file is > not compressed. > > It will take me a day or two to prepare everything. I'll post an answer > here, once the test ISO is uploaded. OK here it is: ftp://ftp.devil-linux.org/pub/devel/testing/ Give it a try and reply to this post with the results. -- Regards Heiko Zuerker http://www.devil-linux.org |
From: Oliver N. <dig...@gm...> - 2005-01-24 17:43:29
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Hello Heiko, Friday, January 21, 2005, 4:47:13 PM, you wrote: >> I will prepare a new ISO file and will use an updated isolinux and updated >> mkisofs. >> >> It shouldn't be the compressed ISO format, since the isolinux boot file is >> not compressed. >> >> It will take me a day or two to prepare everything. I'll post an answer >> here, once the test ISO is uploaded. HZ> OK here it is: ftp://ftp.devil-linux.org/pub/devel/testing/ HZ> Give it a try and reply to this post with the results. Hi, again! The Testrelease 1.2.3 works now perfect on my system!!! Thanx to Heiko and all of the devil-members :-D Great job! -- Best regards, Oliver mailto:dig...@gm... |
From: Michal W. <wei...@ka...> - 2005-01-28 10:34:19
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On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 16:47, Heiko Zuerker wrote: > > I will prepare a new ISO file and will use an updated isolinux and updated > > mkisofs. > > > > It shouldn't be the compressed ISO format, since the isolinux boot file is > > not compressed. > > > > It will take me a day or two to prepare everything. I'll post an answer > > here, once the test ISO is uploaded. > > OK here it is: ftp://ftp.devil-linux.org/pub/devel/testing/ > Give it a try and reply to this post with the results. Hello, this test release 1.2.3 work for me too. Thanks a lot. Michal |
From: Heiko Z. <he...@zu...> - 2004-12-21 01:31:43
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Hey John, John van Grinsven wrote: > Hello List, > > New to the list and devil Linux (used to use IPCop). > Welcome ! > I have got a problem with booting the cd. After (partly) loading the > initrd.gz my system will reboot. Every time. What is the last message you see? > > It's a Pentium I with IDE Hd on IDE1, an 32X cdrom at IDE2 as master, > floppydrive, ide harddisk 250 MB and a SCSI disk 1 gb adaptec 152x > driver. (just tried the sentry iso with boots up perfectly even > recognizes my scsi drive.) How much RAM ? Is the system overclocked ? Which Kernel does sentry use? > > I tried all the different images 486, 586 and 686 except server but > all have the same problem. > 686 won't work on Pentium I. > Solutions anyone? Most of the time the problem is defect RAM, can you replace it and try again? For a test 32 MB should be sufficent. If not, we include memtest in the boot menu. Let it run over night. -- Regards Heiko Zuerker http://www.devil-linux.org |
From: John v. G. <jo...@gr...> - 2004-12-21 20:23:09
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Heiko Zuerker wrote: > Hey John, > > John van Grinsven wrote: > >> Hello List, >> >> New to the list and devil Linux (used to use IPCop). >> > Welcome ! > >> I have got a problem with booting the cd. After (partly) loading the >> initrd.gz my system will reboot. Every time. > > > What is the last message you see? /boot/vmlinuz.... /boot/initrd.gz.......... The number of dots is not accurate! I could not count the dots. But I would assume it loads the complete file. After this it goes on with displaying the VGA bios boot screen. > >> >> It's a Pentium I with IDE Hd on IDE1, an 32X cdrom at IDE2 as master, >> floppydrive, ide harddisk 250 MB and a SCSI disk 1 gb adaptec 152x >> driver. (just tried the sentry iso with boots up perfectly even >> recognizes my scsi drive.) > > > How much RAM ? 48 Mb > Is the system overclocked ? No. > Which Kernel does sentry use? Good point, don't know really, but will check it out. Have to burn the image again. (This CD rom drive just won't accept any rewritable..) It uses 2.4.27. > >> >> I tried all the different images 486, 586 and 686 except server but >> all have the same problem. >> > 686 won't work on Pentium I. IPCop says: CPU: Cyrix 6x86 2x Core/Bus Clock stepping 07 Ooo, that would also mean this is no Pentium is it? Should 686 still work? > >> Solutions anyone? > > > > Most of the time the problem is defect RAM, can you replace it and try > again? For a test 32 MB should be sufficent. > If not, we include memtest in the boot menu. Let it run over night. Overnight? Allright, I let it run 1 pass. Thought it was quite something! Will do an allnighter. Anyway I am booting through Smart Boot Manager, although this system _will_ boot of CDROM, with my SCSI adapter installed it won't! Memtest is running now, we will know tomorrow I suppose. Thanks so far for the hints! Greetings, John. |
From: Heiko Z. <he...@zu...> - 2004-12-21 20:35:19
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Hey, >>> I tried all the different images 486, 586 and 686 except server but >>> all have the same problem. >>> >> 686 won't work on Pentium I. > > IPCop says: CPU: Cyrix 6x86 2x Core/Bus Clock stepping 07 > > Ooo, that would also mean this is no Pentium is it? > Should 686 still work? I doubt it. In this case it would be safest to do all the testing with the i486 version, until we now everything else is fixed. -- Regards Heiko Zuerker http://www.devil-linux.org |
From: John v. G. <jo...@gr...> - 2004-12-22 08:22:53
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Heiko Zuerker wrote: > Hey, > > >>>>I tried all the different images 486, 586 and 686 except server but >>>>all have the same problem. >>>> >>> >>>686 won't work on Pentium I. >> >>IPCop says: CPU: Cyrix 6x86 2x Core/Bus Clock stepping 07 >> >>Ooo, that would also mean this is no Pentium is it? >>Should 686 still work? > > > I doubt it. > In this case it would be safest to do all the testing with the i486 > version, until we now everything else is fixed. > > OK, I will burn the 486 iso again. Memtest just ran through 41 passes without problems. Just burned a disk with 486 and it boot up OK! Must have been a problem with the rewritable disk. I'm at the login prompt now. Time for the docs! Thanks! John |
From: John v. G. <jo...@gr...> - 2004-12-22 15:30:01
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John van Grinsven wrote: > OK, I will burn the 486 iso again. > Memtest just ran through 41 passes without problems. > > Just burned a disk with 486 and it boot up OK! > Must have been a problem with the rewritable disk. > I'm at the login prompt now. Time for the docs! Setup's a breeze. Works like a charm! After my initial problems (btw my own fault) I didn't think this would be so easy. Now of to explore the rest of it... |
From: Heiko Z. <he...@zu...> - 2004-12-22 15:41:15
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> John van Grinsven wrote: > >> OK, I will burn the 486 iso again. >> Memtest just ran through 41 passes without problems. >> >> Just burned a disk with 486 and it boot up OK! >> Must have been a problem with the rewritable disk. >> I'm at the login prompt now. Time for the docs! > > Setup's a breeze. > Works like a charm! > After my initial problems (btw my own fault) I didn't think this would > be so easy. Now of to explore the rest of it... I'm glad it's working now. Have fun with DL ! -- Regards Heiko Zuerker http://www.devil-linux.org |
From: Earle F. P. I. <ea...@zi...> - 2004-12-21 05:43:43
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Howdy! At 02:17 AM 12/21/2004 +0100, John wrote: >New to the list and devil Linux (used to use IPCop). >I have got a problem with booting the cd. After (partly) loading the >initrd.gz my system will reboot. Every time. >It's a Pentium I with IDE Hd on IDE1, an 32X cdrom at IDE2 as master, >floppydrive, ide harddisk 250 MB and a SCSI disk 1 gb adaptec 152x driver. >(just tried the sentry iso with boots up perfectly even recognizes my scsi >drive.) >I tried all the different images 486, 586 and 686 except server but all >have the same problem. Try adding "ide=nodma" to your boot prompt, I have an Acer Aspire Pentium system that had that same issue. It turned out that DMA didn't quite work and when it was enabled in the kernel I'd get a hang every time. If that nodma works, you can make a custom CD that has that boot option by default with the scripts in the devil-linux devel package... -Earle F. Philhower, III ea...@zi... cdrlabel - ZipLabel - FlpLabel http://www.cdrlabel.com |
From: John v. G. <jo...@gr...> - 2004-12-21 20:00:04
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Earle F. Philhower III wrote: > Howdy! > > At 02:17 AM 12/21/2004 +0100, John wrote: > >> New to the list and devil Linux (used to use IPCop). >> I have got a problem with booting the cd. After (partly) loading the >> initrd.gz my system will reboot. Every time. >> It's a Pentium I with IDE Hd on IDE1, an 32X cdrom at IDE2 as master, >> floppydrive, ide harddisk 250 MB and a SCSI disk 1 gb adaptec 152x >> driver. (just tried the sentry iso with boots up perfectly even >> recognizes my scsi drive.) >> I tried all the different images 486, 586 and 686 except server but >> all have the same problem. > > > Try adding "ide=nodma" to your boot prompt, I have an Acer Aspire No, that didn't fix it. Thanks anyway. Will try to answer the questions Heiko asked. Perhaps that sheds some light on the problem. Greetings John. |
From: Martin G. <mar...@we...> - 2004-12-21 12:47:13
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John van Grinsven wrote: > New to the list and devil Linux (used to use IPCop). > > I have got a problem with booting the cd. After (partly) loading the > initrd.gz my system will reboot. Every time. > > It's a Pentium I with IDE Hd on IDE1, an 32X cdrom at IDE2 as master, > floppydrive, ide harddisk 250 MB and a SCSI disk 1 gb adaptec 152x > driver. (just tried the sentry iso with boots up perfectly even > recognizes my scsi drive.) > > I tried all the different images 486, 586 and 686 except server but all > have the same problem. Maybe problem of BIOS-Age (?): I have a problem with my PentiumI, that the board only {recognizes/is able to do} emulation boot with floppy sized images on CD. So my bios simply does not touch the original Devil CD (which uses isolinux -- no emulation boot). Sadly the kernel and initrd are too large for a floppy image, so I worked around that with a DOS-Floppy+DOS CD Driver Image and starting loadlin afterwards. Drawback: When starting loadlin from CD, the BIOS takes 10 seconds off before booting (this does not happen, when using a real floppy). Martin |
From: Martin G. <mg...@mp...> - 2004-12-21 08:43:20
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John van Grinsven wrote: > New to the list and devil Linux (used to use IPCop). > > I have got a problem with booting the cd. After (partly) loading the > initrd.gz my system will reboot. Every time. > > It's a Pentium I with IDE Hd on IDE1, an 32X cdrom at IDE2 as master, > floppydrive, ide harddisk 250 MB and a SCSI disk 1 gb adaptec 152x > driver. (just tried the sentry iso with boots up perfectly even > recognizes my scsi drive.) > > I tried all the different images 486, 586 and 686 except server but all > have the same problem. Maybe problem of BIOS-Age (?): I have a problem with my PentiumI, that the board only {recognizes/is able to do} emulation boot with floppy sized images on CD. So my bios simply does not touch the original Devil CD (which uses isolinux -- no emulation boot). Sadly the kernel and initrd are too large for a floppy image, so I worked around that with a DOS-Floppy+DOS CD Driver Image and starting loadlin afterwards. Drawback: When starting loadlin from CD, the BIOS takes 10 seconds off before booting (this does not happen, when using a real floppy). Martin -- +-[Martin Ginkel]-------------[mailto:mginkel(at)mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de]-+ | MPI Magdeburg, Zi S2.09 Sandtorstr. 1, D-39106 Magdeburg, Germany | | C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as | | farce. | +-[tel/fax: +49 391 6110 482/529]----[http://www.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de]-+ |
From: Eric C. <me...@is...> - 2004-12-21 13:59:04
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Hi all, I know it's not the coolest thing to do, but personally, and only if I have access to another cheap computer, I would just run Devil from another computer :-) Eric Martin Ginkel <mg...@mp...> said: > John van Grinsven wrote: > > New to the list and devil Linux (used to use IPCop). > > > > I have got a problem with booting the cd. After (partly) loading the > > initrd.gz my system will reboot. Every time. > > > > It's a Pentium I with IDE Hd on IDE1, an 32X cdrom at IDE2 as master, > > floppydrive, ide harddisk 250 MB and a SCSI disk 1 gb adaptec 152x > > driver. (just tried the sentry iso with boots up perfectly even > > recognizes my scsi drive.) > > > > I tried all the different images 486, 586 and 686 except server but all > > have the same problem. > > Maybe problem of BIOS-Age (?): > I have a problem with my PentiumI, that the board only > {recognizes/is able to do} emulation boot with floppy sized > images on CD. > > So my bios simply does not touch the original Devil CD > (which uses isolinux -- no emulation boot). > > Sadly the kernel and initrd are too large for a floppy image, > so I worked around that with a DOS-Floppy+DOS CD Driver Image and > starting loadlin afterwards. > > Drawback: When starting loadlin from CD, the BIOS takes 10 seconds off > before booting (this does not happen, when using a real floppy). > > Martin > > > -- > +-[Martin Ginkel]-------------[mailto:mginkel(at)mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de]-+ > | MPI Magdeburg, Zi S2.09 Sandtorstr. 1, D-39106 Magdeburg, Germany | > | C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as | > | farce. | > +-[tel/fax: +49 391 6110 482/529]----[http://www.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de]-+ > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Devil-linux-discuss mailing list > Dev...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/devil-linux-discuss > -- ------------------------- Eric Constantineau b.ing. me...@is... http://mekanik.propel.to |
From: Martin G. <mar...@we...> - 2004-12-21 14:39:50
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Eric Constantineau wrote: > I know it's not the coolest thing to do, but personally, and only if I have > access to another cheap computer, I would just run Devil from another > computer :-) Why? The machine is damn stable for 2 years now, runs with only one temp-controlled fan and is fast enougth for routing with wlan, isdn and some internal services (dhcp, hostap, dns ...) What is the opinion of the developers: If I build a custom kernel (with only the necessary modules), would bzImage and initrd fit onto a single 2.88 Disk? Martin |
From: Mats L. <mat...@bo...> - 2004-12-21 15:01:38
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Martin Ginkel wrote: > Eric Constantineau wrote: > >> I know it's not the coolest thing to do, but personally, and only if >> I have access to another cheap computer, I would just run Devil from >> another computer :-) > > > Why? > The machine is damn stable for 2 years now, runs with only one > temp-controlled fan and is fast enougth for routing with wlan, isdn > and some internal services (dhcp, hostap, dns ...) > > What is the opinion of the developers: > If I build a custom kernel (with only the necessary modules), > would bzImage and initrd fit onto a single 2.88 Disk? > > Martin There are tools to get more than 2.88MB out of a 2.88MB disc. For 1.44 this can be up to 2MB if I remember correctly, how much exactly depends on the floppy controller. Maybe you can get up to 3MB out of your disc? Unfortunately it was such a long time ago I did this sort of thing, and I also only used 1.44MB discs, so I do not know exactly what you had to do. But if I remember correctly there were only two things you needed to do if you're not in for heavy tweakin: Using another device than /dev/fd0 and give correct kernel configuration about which device to boot from (there's a util for changing kernel parameters). I'm sure there's a howto on this, search the net. I might have forgotten some important detail. An alternative is to skip boot loaders and copy kernel using dd directly to disc. If I remember correctly, this means that you cannot do the tweaking above, but if you can't do the tweaking anyway this saves a few bytes. That's all I have, hope it helps... /Mats |