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Svante Swantenson posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
Hello. I've winXP Pro SP3 must I destroy it boot to install and use gujin or not and would you like step by step explain me how to install guijin to work with on the winXP Pro SP3 ?
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Etienne LORRAIN modified a wiki page
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Following that personal E-mail question: I'm an Ubuntu user & would like to replace GRUB2 - and would also like to be able to have a couple of utility ISOs bootable from the HDD. Will your Gujin still do all these things with the latest versions of Ubuntu ?? Reply: The answer is "yes and no", it is not depending on what you are booting, but on your PC. If your PC is booting UEFI, Gujin cannot help because it relies on the older BIOS and your PC will not consider even running Gujin. If your PC is...
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Hello Abac, 1) and 3) might be due to a lack of malloc() memory - i.e. not enough memory in the 64 Kbytes segment containning data. I think you can display the "command file" by typing "C" when Gujin show you the menu, it would tell if malloc() failed and the file was ignored. All found command files are treated (stripped of comments, ...) when they are found (while probing filesystems) and concatenated into a variable size buffer, then matched depending on filenames at Linux loading. That is what...
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Abac Cox posted a comment on discussion Help
I know i promise to not bother you with more silly questions. But i can't find answers anywhere else. 1) I have issues with gujin.cmd, gujin doesn't display the the names of the entries in the menu. :distro1:vmlinuz:initrd::GujinCMD.1:loglevel=3 --Only this is show in the boot menu. :distro2:vmlinuz2:initrd2::GujinCMD.2:loglevel=6 --This is not show in the boot menu. Gujin doesn't update the menu, if i add a gujin.cmd file in the tiny fat partition where i installed Gujin but gujin doesn't show it...
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You are welcomed, the BIOS system has had a lot of stuff added over the years, it is a bit complex but usually there is a way to get where you want to be. EFI bios may be butyfull (displaying a nice graphic) but when it doesn't work there is no way to know what happened.
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I'm playing with fdisk and parted, also, i'm reading all of the documentation available of gujin so i have more clues of what i'm actually doing, like the geometry, (E)BIOS, boot process and everything gujin's documentation is talking about. Thank you for take your time and answer my silly questions. I don't want to bother you anymore. I will work hard to learn how to use and implement gujin. Thank you for all you help! :)
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I am not sure why my reply did not appeared here... There are few distro which can boot in a mode where Gujin extract vmlinuz/initrd from the partition or the ISO, and then Gujin can pass a Linux command line parameter like "isofrom=". The real distro independant system would be to use that "gujin.sh" inside the distro initrd, and then the distro always knows where it has been loaded from (even if Gujin did not extract vmlinuz/initrd but started the El-Torito bootloader). Obviously there is no command...
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Yes, it's seem only the distro with casper can boot real good with gujin. But for those who can't find their root filesystem, there is a distro-independent solution?, one based in the loader instead of the distro itself. A solution based on gujin? Edit: Nevermind, since 2008 you already said the real problem: The problem is not inside the bootloader, but when the Unix system mounts the device to find the rest of its files, EDIT1: Anyway, maybe Damn Small Linux can't read GPT. Besides this, how affect...
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Yes, it's seem only the distro with casper can boot real good with gujin. But for those who can't find their root filesystem, there is a distro-independent solution?, one based in the loader instead of the distro itself. A solution based on gujin? Edit: Nevermind, since 2008 you already said the real problem: The problem is not inside the bootloader, but when the Unix system mounts the device to find the rest of its files,
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Yes, it's seem only the distro with casper can boot real good with gujin. But for those who can't find their root filesystem, there is a distro-independent solution?, one based in the loader instead of the distro itself. A solution based on gujin? Edit: Nevermind, since 2008 you already saided the real problem: The problem is not inside the bootloader, but when the Unix system mounts the device to find the rest of its files,
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Yes, it's seem only the distro with casper can boot real good with gujin. But for those who can't find their root filesystem, there is a distro-independent solution?, one based in the loader instead of the distro itself. A solution based on gujin?
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There is a way to ... tell the distro where to search (by dev/ address or UUID) the root file system? Yes, for every Linux distro which uses Casper (Ubuntu, ...) it is https://code.launchpad.net/~etienne-lorrain/casper/gujin For most other distro, they can find where they booted from with the shell script "gujin.sh" in the source gujin-2.8.7.tar.gz, I have tested it on Fedora and few other distributions. I hope I documented it properly - but because it is used when the initrd control files are executed,...
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Maybe, but i'm not sure, it's was a long time ago. Now, i'm not trying to start Gparted and Clonezilla in the same usb but in different partitions, not yet. I'm trying to deal with the various distros and they apparently incapacity to find their own root file system. This time is Damn Small Linux. Some time ago, i was able to start DSL in a usb with multiple partitions, the usb had a GPT partition and a different distro in each partition. Now when i was trying again to do the same i failed, then...
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Maybe, but i'm not sure, it's was a long time ago. Now, i'm not trying to start Gparted and Clonezilla in the same usb but in different partitions, not yet. I'm trying to deal with the various distros and they apparently incapacity to find their own root file system. This time is Damn Small Linux. Some time ago, i was able to start DSL in a usb with multiple partitions, the usb haved a GPT partition and a different distro in each partition. Now when i was trying again to do the same i failed, then...
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Maybe, but i'm not sure, it's was a long time ago. Now, i'm not trying to start Gparted and Clonezilla in the same usb but in different partitions, not yet. I'm trying to deal with the various distros and they apparently incapacity to find their own root file system. This time is Damn Small Linux. Some time ago, i was able to start DSL in a usb with multiple partitions, the usb haved a GPT partition and a different distro in each partition. Now when i was trying again to do the same i failed, then...
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So Gparted uses an external root filesystem, I was thinking Gparted would have its whole root filesystem contained in its initrd, I was wrong.
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At least when i did a test with Gparted and Clonezilla in the same usb but in different partitions, whe i selected the Gparted "option" in Gujin, the system start but with the Clonezilla's screen. So i will look a way to have this tools in the same usb without blending each other root system.
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Some ISO are a bit special, probably Gparted is loaded entirely into memory by the bootloader (whatever the bootloader is) and never needs to access its iso file again, so there should not be any problem. But a Linux distribution will only be partly loaded: the kernel and initrd are in memory once the bootloader finishes, usually the initrd is then tasked to find "the" root filesystem, and that code do not assume (without my Linux patch) that there may be multiple root filesystems arround. There...
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Ok, thank you. About the mix root filesystems by some distros. I did not seek to join the two distros. What i was trying to say is this: /dev/sdb2/ -- This partition has the iso of Clonezilla, iso that i had already put using the cat tool (cat clonezilla.iso > /dev/sdb2) /dev/sdb3/ -- The same with this partition, only this time it is Gparted. Thanks for the tips, i will put them into practice. Slowly but surely. I'll come back to ask if i have another issue. Thank you again.
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Hi Abac, and sorry for the late answer. The first problem you have is due to the distribution itself not being able to detect its own root filesystem. Even if Gujin do tell where to find it, it will ignore the hint provided by Gujin and get the first root filesystem it finds - unless the patch I provided (and you found) is applied. You have noticed it because you tried to mix two distributions root filesystems (and I do agree it is a dirty solution). The problems you encounter all come down to this...
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Hi everyone It's been a long time since i discover gujin. I'm thankfully to the developer to provide such a good tool. I'm lost, i don't know where to start. I already read the page of Gujin in Wikipedia, the few messages of mailing list in sourceforge, Install.txt, the B.E.E.R partition wiki, MBR wiki, BIOS wiki, and so on... Anyway, i'm able to install Gujin in a usb, make some partitions and: cat distro.iso > /dev/sdg But when i want to put 2 distros who share the same base, example trisquel and...
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Hi everyone It's been a long time since i discover gujin. I'm thankfully to the developer to provide such a good tool. I'm lost, i don't know where to start. I already read the page of Gujin in Wikipedia, the few messages of mailing list in sourceforge, Install.txt, the B.E.E.R partition wiki, MBR wiki, BIOS wiki, and so on... Anyway, i'm able to install Gujin in a usb, make some partitions and: cat distro.iso > /dev/sdg But when i want to put 2 distros who share the same base, example trisquel and...
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Unfortunately, UEFI systems are not made for a software which aims to control the...
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Ok, i'm agree with thath. How i can help you? For example, if you need an address...
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Hi Abac, Thanks for the offer, keep in mind that Gujin is a BIOS bootloader and most...
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Hi Etienne I'm a person who has the oportunnity to stay near to very new hardware....
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Hi Etienne I'm a person who has the oportunnity to stay near to very new hardware....
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Hi Alex, The BIOS do not support CD/DVD drive, you have to ask Gujin to do a direct...
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Alex Craig posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion
Greetings, I have 3 Windows 2000 Servers built on older MSI boards (MSI-6758 875P...
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I think probing directly the CDROM/DVD is disabled by default on BIOS boot because...
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andrew purugganan posted a comment on discussion Help
Etienne, I have nothing but the best praise for your wonderful boot loader. But the...
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You can ask Gujin to transform eeebuntu ISO filesystem image to a dual ISO + FAT...
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So, i need to do this with the Knoppix image? ./gujin eeebuntu-2.0-standard.iso \...
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So, i need to do this with the Knoppix image? ./gujin eeebuntu-2.0-standard.iso \...
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Hi, You are using two completely different way of booting here, the first where Gujin...
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Hi! Gujin, Gujin... I'ts AWESOME! Thank You! :) My question is about the 'persistence...
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gujin boot/system loader released /OldFiles/debian_executable-1.7.tar.gz
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GCC bug 57915 fixed
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