Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Problem installing to USB

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

On Tue, February 6, 2007 07:00, Fred Frigerio wrote:
>>

>> At that point suspecting a GRUB problem I wiped the stick and tried to
>> rebuild it by hand with the GRUB from my computer (version 0.97). I did
>> what I am used to which is a boot partition (sdh1) a root partition
>> (sdh3) and a config partition (sdh2) all ext2. I installed grub to sdh1
>>  and changed the config so that it was (hd0,0)/ instead of
>> (hd0,0)/boot/
>> and strange enough that worked just fine. No problem booting up, other
>> than failing to find the iso to finish booting.
>>
>> I need help either getting the original scheme working (how can I make
>> grub see grub.conf?) or my manual scheme working (how can I tell it where
>> the ISO is?)
>>
>
> Is there something in the initrd which sets up the / after the kernel
> start? I am wondering if there is any documentation on the boot process
> that I can look at to try and get this working.
>

No there's only the standard linux documentation.
Basically what happens is that the boot loader loads the kernel plus the
'initrd' (Initial RamDisk). Then a script called linuxrc is executed which
performs the basic setup, locating of the device and mounting it.

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  Heiko Zuerker
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