[Morphix-user] Re: [Morphix-devel] Booting iso from hd

[Brendan M. S. <me...@ba...>]

Hi Aleksey,

>> Have a look at the morphix and ibuild documentation -
>> poor mans install . You need to boot from cd for the
>> initial boot prompt them use the boot option
>> fromhd=/mnt/foo/bar
>
> Hmm, those manuals is how I came with idea of rebooting to test the
> CD without burning. However it doesn't work.

You could use qemu, it you really do not want to burn a CD.
http://am.xs4all.nl/phpwiki/index.php/Qemu
I have only heard people get qemu to work with kernel 2.6+

> I have ibuild tree on hda6 which is mounted to /opt,
> so it is at /opt/ibuild. My root is on hda1. I've
> been trying to boot it using most recent morphix-
> lightGUI CD and I've been trying both
>
> Morphix:  morphix
> fromhd=hda6/ibuild/release/freevo/freevo.iso
>
> and
>
> Morphix:  morphix
> fromhd=hda1/opt/ibuild/release/freevo/freevo.iso
>
> and it didn't work. Any ideas why?
Missing a slash, maybe ?:-
fromhd=/hda1/opt/ibuild/release/freevo/freevo.iso

> I don't recall exactly, but I believe I copied
> freevo.iso to / on hda1 and it worked with
>
> Morphix:  morphix fromhd=hda1/freevo.iso
>
> But it looks like Morphix boot process checks USB and
> CD for modules, so as a result even when it was
> booting my stripped down freevo.iso, it still found
> Main-lightGUI module on the CD and at the end booted
> lightGUI. Then I tried to remove CD while my iso was
> booting to stop morphix from finding Main-lightGUI
> module, but morphix monitors CD ejection and once I
> ejected the CD even when I was booting from hd it halted
> the boot.
>
> Aleksey


Regards,
Brendan