Re: [Trinux-talk] some special help needed

[rick p. <ric...@ho...>]

Hi and thanks for replying,

The initrd is from the 5Sept.iso. a pre_release version of Trinux. So maybe 
it was that releases' linuxrc that didn't have the proper checks.
I'll definitely try the newer initrd and I will try the loadlin hack if that 
doesn't pan out.


BTW- I found the .config file in the 2419o.tgz but that required a 49Meg 
download. Is there a more convenient way to get the .config file you used?

Thank you

RIck Philbrick
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From: Matthew Franz
To: rick philbrick <ric...@ho...>
CC: tri...@li...
Subject: Re: [Trinux-talk] some special help needed
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 21:56:29 -0600

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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