Re: [Trinux-talk] Running Trinux from a hard disk

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

Very nice patches, I'll add them to the linuxrc and to the
documentation. Sounds like I also need to do a new release, particularly
in light of all the do_brk() nonsense. Hopefully over the holidays...

- mdf


> Dear all,
> 
> I'm also working on running Trinux from a harddisk.
> 
> In my case, I'm using a small partition which boots SYSLINUX, similar to the
> way that Trinux is booted from a floppy disk.
> 
> On this partition, I have stored a number of floppy disk images, so I can
> boot virtually any Operating System from any bootfloppy, which is much
> faster then booting from a physical floppy drive.
> 
> One of the problems I saw is that the original linuxrc in the initrd.gz does
> not recognize this situation.
> 
> I have added the following lines to the original linuxrc of Matthew Franz in
> the 'Special Probing stuff' Section, and then it worked.
> 
> Matthew, is this something to add permanently in the linuxrc ?  
> 
> Regards,   Henk
> 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> 
> ######################################################################
> ### Special Probing stuff
> ######################################################################
> 
> ### HvA, 20031201: check for boot harddisk with syslinux
> echo "Checking all vfat partitions for ldlinux.sys (syslinux)"
> 
> for i in `cat /etc/proc/fixed 2> /dev/null`
> do
> 	if mount -o ro -t vfat /dev/${i} /mnt 2> /dev/null
> 	then
> 		echo -n "VFAT found on $i"
> 		if ls /mnt/ldlinux.sys 2> /dev/null
> 		then
> 			echo -n " found ldlinux.sys (syslinux)"
> 			if [ -d /mnt/trinux ]
> 			then
> 				echo " found trinux"
> 				BOOT="/dev/${i}"
> 				BOOTFS="vfat"
> 				echo "BOOT=$BOOT"
> 				echo "$i" > /etc/proc/fixedpkg
> 				SYSLINUX="true"
> 				cd /
> 				umount /mnt 2> /dev/null
> 				break
> 			fi		
> 		fi
> 		
> 	fi
> 	umount /mnt 2> /dev/null
> done
> 
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> 
> 
> Henk van Asselt
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Franz [mailto:mf...@ci...] 
> Sent: Thursday, 18 December, 2003 5:09 PM
> To: Brian Ford
> Cc: tri...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Trinux-talk] Running Trinux from a hard disk
> 
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:23:26AM -0500, Brian Ford wrote:
> >  
> > List;
> >  
> > Is anyone out there running Trinux from a hard drive?  I have a Pentium
> > MMX PC with 192 MB of RAM that I am looking to use for pen test.  I can
> > run Trinux on it from the CD but have been unable to get it to boot from
> > the hard disk.  Any suggestions?
> >  
> 
> Section 1.4 in http://trinux.sourceforge.net/docs.txt should get you
> started. It
> requires booting with MS-DOS (or FreeDOS for purists) with loadlin.exe
> 
> See http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/trinux/fdos-util-0.1?download
> 
> - mdf
> 
> 
> 
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