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

[Fred F. <ffr...@lo...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev...@li...=20
> [mailto:dev...@li...] On=20
> Behalf Of Heiko Zuerker
> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 9:58 AM
> To: dev...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Problem installing to USB
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> On Tue, February 6, 2007 07:00, Fred Frigerio wrote:
> >>
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> >> At that point suspecting a GRUB problem I wiped the stick=20
> and tried to
> >> rebuild it by hand with the GRUB from my computer (version=20
> 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=20
> 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=20
> booting up, other
> >> than failing to find the iso to finish booting.
> >>
> >> I need help either getting the original scheme working=20
> (how can I make
> >> grub see grub.conf?) or my manual scheme working (how can=20
> I tell it where
> >> the ISO is?)
> >>
> >
> > Is there something in the initrd which sets up the / after=20
> the kernel
> > start? I am wondering if there is any documentation on the=20
> boot process
> > that I can look at to try and get this working.
> >
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> No there's only the standard linux documentation.
> Basically what happens is that the boot loader loads the=20
> kernel plus the
> 'initrd' (Initial RamDisk). Then a script called linuxrc is=20
> executed which
> performs the basic setup, locating of the device and mounting it.
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> Regards
>   Heiko Zuerker
>   http://www.devil-linux.org
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OK. That narrows it to figuring out what linuxrc is doing and maybe
tweaking it. That script is inside the initrd or outside on the stick?=20