[Quantian-general] Problems running from .iso file

[Raymond E. Rogers]

I am trying to run from a .iso image, and it almost works.   I am
inserting the present form of the grub.conf and ls -l /boot
The 2.6 form errors out saying it can't mount something.
The 2.4 form itemizes some hard disks and then apparently looks for a cd
(or Loop facility ?) and then says it can't find a Knoppix file system. 
I would describe it better but the search line gets overwritten by the
error line so it only lasts a second.
The grub.conf file show that I am normally running fc5 under lvm; I
don't know much about lvm.  I just followed some suggestion while
installing fc5.
I think I followed your instructions, but could very well have missed
something.  I have a boot partition on hda1; and the running system on
hda2 ; this might be messed up but I haven't tracked the modern forms of
installing linux very well.
My actual goal is to move it to usb disk, but when I had problems I
decided to try it from a "simple" location; my root.

Ray



grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=15
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hidenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.20-1.2316.fc5)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2316.fc5 ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.20-1.2316.fc5.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.20-1.2312.fc5)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2312.fc5 ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.20-1.2312.fc5.img

title Quantian kernel 2.4
   root (hd0,0)
   kernel (hd0,1)/boot/linux24 ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init
lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 nomce failsafe  fromhd=/dev/null
bootfrom=/Quantian_0.7.9.2.iso  config=scan home=scan noprompt
   initrd (hd0,1)/boot/minirt24.gz

title Quantian kernel 2.4 migshm
   root (hd0,0)
   kernel /migshm24 ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us
apm=power-off vga=791 nomce failsafe  fromhd=/dev/null bootfrom=/*.iso
config=scan home=scan noprompt
   initrd /migrt24.gz

title Quantian kernel 2.6
   root (hd0,0)
   kernel /linux26 ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us
apm=power-off vga=791 nomce nodma failsafe fromhd=/dev/null
bootfrom=/dev/hda1/Quantian_0.7.9.2.iso config=scan home=scan
   initrd /minirt26.gz

title PCLinuxOS
kernel (hd1,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb3 rhgb quiet
initrd (hd1,2)/boot/initrd.img
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Output from ls -l  /boot
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   75402 Apr 10 15:24 config-2.6.20-1.2312.fc5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   75402 Apr 27 20:25 config-2.6.20-1.2316.fc5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   75413 Apr 27 23:25 config-2.6.20-1.2316.fc5kdump
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root    1024 May 27 12:15 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1868856 Apr 21 12:34 initrd-2.6.20-1.2312.fc5.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1868525 May  5 17:28 initrd-2.6.20-1.2316.fc5.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1868602 May 25 18:26
initrd-2.6.20-1.2316.fc5kdump.img
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1208332 Sep 30  2004 linux24
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1458194 Dec 29  2004 linux26
drwx------ 2 root root   12288 Mar 27  2006 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1562610 Nov 24  2004 migrt24.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1218563 Sep 30  2004 migshm24
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1555049 Dec 29  2004 minirt24.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1404164 Nov 24  2004 minirt26.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  916496 Apr 10 15:24 System.map-2.6.20-1.2312.fc5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  916496 Apr 27 20:25 System.map-2.6.20-1.2316.fc5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  916962 Apr 27 23:25
System.map-2.6.20-1.2316.fc5kdump
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4529892 Apr 27 23:30 vmlinux-2.6.20-1.2316.fc5kdump
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1776756 Apr 10 15:24 vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2312.fc5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1777012 Apr 27 20:25 vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2316.fc5