[Quantian-general] [Fwd: Re: Quantian-general Digest, Vol 22, Issue 7]

[Raymond E. Rogers]

Nothing significant; just comments.

jack byers wrote:
>  raymond wrote:
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>     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.  
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> ?? I cant see any difference in your two grub menu items
> -- as far as i can see
>    if 2.4sda worked   so should 2.6sda
>  
Well it didn't.  Is there some way to record the output?
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>     I think the root=/dev/sda2 (or sda1)
>     is bogus but I didn't have time to verify that.  
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> yes,  the quantian howto  does not use "root= /dev/xxxx"   at all
> I am surprised that it didnt belch at you.
> try taking that out and re trying  2.6sda
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Okay.
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>     This might be the reason for the failure of iso booting from
>     hda1; failure to find the minirt24 because the partition was in use.
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> sounds  right, or something like that
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>     1) In retrospect I am not sure that booting from the usbhd isn't
>     better;
>     allowing operation on MS windows machines. 
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>     2) Making the iso image so that the consoles are transparent is ...
>     (how do I say this politely?)  a annoyance. 
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> ?? I dont have the faintest idea what you mean by "consoles are
> transparent"
Hmm... I take it that yours aren't.  To see the effect; open a console
and then open "settings" on the top toolbar.   Chose one of the
transparent settings and you will see.  I take it that this is an
uninitialized variable.
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>     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.
>
>     Ray 
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> I think that makes sense; 
>  But just so  I better uderstand your  hda1 setup:
>   hda1 is your /boot  partition, correct?  
>  and all kernels, initrds are stored in it, corrrect?
> and you originally also tried to store the Q.iso in it, correct?
> How big is your hda1?  
>  are you sure you have enough room for the Qiso ?
As far as I can tell the
boot is done from hda1
then vmlinuz  uses root as hda2
then /dev/Vol... kicks in from hda2
boot still is at hda1, but linux proper is running at hda2 with hda1
mounted under /boot
In any case the attempts to boot Quantian from hda were from hda2 root

Ray


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