Re: [Trinux-talk] trinux newbie

[Matthew F. <mf...@ci...>]

Are you sure your IDE device got detected/that you were using an IDE
kernel? A

dmesg | grep hd

should reveal your devices

Is your DOS device the first one?

- mdf

>
> Thanks for the tip ! It did work..... now I can boot from my IDE disk ! B=
ut
> I=B4m having problems to load my modules.
> I discovered that the vars CDEV and FDEV are getting no value.... so when=
 my
> box boots, it doesn=B4t recognize that it is
> booting from a loadlin.exe.
>
> Looking at the linuxrc boot script I=B4ve found where it set this vars:
> --
> CDEV=3D`dmesg | grep D-ROM | grep hd | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq`  # CD-R=
OM
> devices
> FDEV=3D`dmesg | grep -v LDM | grep "^ [sh]d[a-f][1-9]" | cut -d':' -f2 | =
sort
> | uniq`  # FIXED
>
> echo "FDEV: $FDEV"
> echo "CDEV: $CDEV"
> --
> At the boot I see FDEV: and CDEV: empty.
> "BOOT=3D" is empty to.
>
> Can anyone help me ? Any experience like this before ?
>
> I=B4m using a AMD Duron with freedos, kernel 2.4.17 and trinux-ide.
>
>
> Thank=B4s in advance,
> Gus
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Franz" <mf...@ci...>
> To: <gu...@ke...>
> Cc: <tri...@li...>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 6:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [Trinux-talk] trinux newbie
>
>
> >
> > Yes, you can boot from a flash IDE or normal IDE drive. Here is a rough
> > guide:
> >
> > 1) Create a small DOS/FAT partition (10-25mb). This will need to be *DO=
S*
> > not NT, so you will need to dig up a Win9x or DoS boot floppy and forma=
t
> > /s it. If you want to stay Open Source FreeDoS (http://www.freedos.org)
> > will work fine.
> >
> > 2) Somehow copy loadlin.exe to that partition in C:\
> >
> > 3) Create a trinux directory on c:\
> >
> > 4) Download the latest initrd.gz from
> > http://www.io.com/~mdfranz/trinux/initd/ and place it c:\
> >
> > 5) Download an ide kernel from http://trinux.sf.net/kernel/x.x.x/ide/ (=
I
> > think 2.4.5 should work) to c:\bzimage
> >
> > 6) Test it to make surt it boots: c:> loadlin initrd=3Dinitrd.gz
> > root=3D/dev/ram0 bzimage (the kernel name might come before the boot
> > arguments, can't remember off the top of my head. Whatever command you =
get
> > working can be added to your autoxec.bat to get everything going
> >
> > 7) Within c:\trinux create the following directories:
> >
> > tux - contains the normal directory structure found on trinux floppies
> >
> > bootpkg - will contain any packages you want loaded early on if you wan=
t
> > to do network booting you will need: dnslibs.tgz dhcpcd.tgz system.tgz.
> >
> > kpkg - kernel packages you want loaded
> >
> > pkg - you can also put packages here
> >
> >
> > NOTE: network configuration changes slightly from the last floppy relea=
se.
> >
> > If you want to do DHCP (easiest) tux\config\eth0 (or eth1) should conta=
in
> > dhcp. You can also put the IP and netmask in there separated by a space
> > (192.168.100.1 255.255.255.0) and then add \tux\config\gateway,dns with
> > your default route and DNS server
> >
> > Post to the list if you have any problems.
> >
> > - mdf
> >
> > > I=B4ve just found trinux and looking around (docs, faq and lists) I d=
idn=B4t
> > > find a *exact* answer for my question... so there it goes:
> > > - Can I install trinux to boot from a IDE disk and not necessarily fr=
om
> a
> > > floppy disk (perhaps a flash-ide) ?
> > > I=B4ve found documantation enough to install it in a floppy disk but =
I
> > > couldn=B4t found any where explaning how to install only in IDE drive=
rs.
> > > If someone could send me a url, doc, pice of txt, anything.... I=B4ll=
 be
> > > thankful.
> > >
> > > Thank=B4s in advance,
> > > Gus
> > >
> > >
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