Fwd: Re: [debian-knoppix] Running the compressed iso from hd: does it have to be /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX ?
hi!
that is not so complicated, but you'll need to modify miniroot.gz:
mkdir /tmp/disk
mkdir /tmp/mini
mount <your-knoppix>/KNOPPIX/boot.img /tmp/disk -o loop
cp /tmp/disk/miniroot.gz /tmp
gunzip /tmp/miniroot.gz
mount /tmp/miniroot /tmp/mini -o loop
joe /tmp/mini/linuxrc
go to line 219, it should say something like:
if test -d /cdrom/KNOPPIX
that's the KNOPPIX Directory. change the condition to whatever you like.
repack miniroot.gz:
umount /tmp/mini
gzip /tmp/miniroot
cp /tmp/miniroot.gz /tmp/disk
umount /tmp/disk
you're done.
To tell lilo where kernel + initrd reside: copy vmlinuz + miniroot.gz from the
bootdisk, configure lilo to use these.
nik
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Subject: Re: [debian-knoppix] Running the compressed iso from hd: does it have
to be /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX ?
Date: Samstag, 9. August 2003 23:31
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
To: Fabian Franz <FabianFranz@gmx.de>
Cc: debian-knoppix@linuxtag.org
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 07:54:59PM +0200, Fabian Franz wrote:
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> Am Samstag, 9. August 2003 19:42 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
> > On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 07:31:03PM +0200, Fabian Franz wrote:
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> > > Am Samstag, 9. August 2003 18:00 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
> > > > I have Knoppix (or rather my remastered Quantian variant) running
> > > > straight from the compressed image on a laptop which happened to have
> > > > a spare partition; this works just fine.
> > > >
> > > > But is there a cheatcode I should know to do the same without using a
> > > > top-level /KNOPPIX directory? In other words, can I somehow tell
> > > > lilo to boot from
> > > > /var/local/knoppix-stuff/KNOPPIX/knoppix
> > > >
> > > > Is that possible?
> > >
> > > Lilo ?
> > >
> > > You have to change the initrd ...
> >
> > That was my hunch as the code that scans for /KNOPPIX on all /dev/hda
> > partitions would probably sit inside of miniroot.gz. [ I was sloppy in my
> > terminology -- I mean tell lilo which can tell the initrd/kernel etc pp ]
> >
> > > But that would get rather complicated ...
> >
> > Ok, never mind then. Thanks for the cluebat, though :)
>
> hm, you can take a look at my latest tohd, toram / fromhd patch ...
>
> That should give you the idea ...
>
> You just have to leave the copying out ... :-))
>
> And give more than the partition on cmdline ...
But I don't want to copy-on-boot. I simply want to convince lilo to let me
boot from somewhere other than /KNOPPIX on a given partition.
My hope was that I could prepend an optional string that one could then
stick into the stat() call (or whatever else happens under the hood). Does
that make sense?
Tschoe mit oe, Dirk
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