trinux-talk

[Trinux-talk] some special help needed

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

Hi,


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.


RIck Philbrick




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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.
> 
>