[Quantian-general] Subject: RE: Problems running from .iso file

[Raymond E. Rogers]

jack byers wrote:
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> let me know if you learn how to boot from usb hdisks
> regards,
> Jack
Attached is a grub.conf that half works.  "2.4  sda" works. "2.6 sda"
fails.  CAElinux fails but that is no surprise since Knoppix is
preinstalled before the iso image.  I think the root=/dev/sda2 (or sda1)
is bogus but I didn't have time to verify that.  I reformatted the ntsf
file system on the usbhd to fat32; I think this matters but am not going
to experiment on this right now.  The boot process for 2.4 locks up the
partition it's on , so I made two partitions on the usbhd.  This is to
be able to save results and such and carry them away.  I have another 
Knoppix image that I will try later in the week; putting it alongside of
quantian.  This might be the reason for the failure of iso booting from
hda1; failure to find the minirt24 because the partition was in use.
1) In retrospect I am not sure that booting from the usbhd isn't better;
allowing operation on MS windows machines. 
2) Making the iso image so that the consoles are transparent is ... 
(how do I say this politely?)  a annoyance.
3) My usbhd was a 120gb SimpleTech, I couldn't pass it by for $80.  I am
going to use it for backups and portable experimentation of Engineering
programs.

I think this idea of randomly booting iso images is a great idea
(although I am not sure why); I never got the iso on hda to work but I
suspect it relates to the locking up of the partition the iso image is on.
Any questions are welcome, but I probably won't get back to this until
the weekend.

Ray
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