Re: [Trinux-talk] some special help needed

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

Where did you get the initrd from? Which version of Trinux? Or which date?

Try the linuxrc in the 6 sep 02 initrd.gz in

http://devel.trinux.org/initrd/

If you look in the linuxrc
(http://devel.trinux.org/initrd/src/linuxrc) you'll see the checks

The way I've booted of CF/HD is by creating a DOS/FreeDOS partition and
then using loadlin called from autoexec.bat

- mdf

> 
> 
> I haven't seen any docs on how to get trinux onto a harddrive or a compact 
> flash disk. But seeing as there's an ISO-build with IDE support, it should 
> work.
> 
> So using a SanDisk_CF-64Meg drive I ran syslinux to install a boot loader 
> and then copied the bzImage, initrd.gz and syslinux.cfg files from the 
> CD-ROM's isolinux directory to the SanDisk drive. Then I copied the entire 
> trinux directory, also found on the CD-ROM to the SanDisk drive.
> 
> The hunch turned out to be correct and the steps above took only minutes.
> 
> Now, the hard part....
> This works most of the way and even drops me into a usable shell prompt, 
> but it seems that there is something critical missing from the linuxrc 
> script with regards to booting from a harddrive. The linuxrc script 
> initializes the system and is found in the initrd.gz file. It has the 
> routines and variables for cd-rom floppy and even UML but not for fixed 
> harddrives.
> 
> Please, anyone who has fooled around with installing this on CF or even a 
> regular hard drive please post a couple hints to run trinux off of a hard 
> drive or compact-flash.
> 
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