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Re: booting a Knoppix ISO from an ext2/3 HD partition (was: could I install Knoppix with debootstrap?)



My situation isn't exactly what you asked for, but I'll send this just
in case it helps.

On 5/18/06, Robert Citek <rwcitek@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
If someone can successfully boot a Knoppix ISO from a hard drive
partition formatted as ext2/3 using grub, can you please run the
following code and e-mail me the contents of output.txt:

Well, I'm doing that from ReiserFS-partition, but I don't see any
reason why this wouldn't work for ext2/3 also.
This is the setup I'm using:
(NOTE: I'm using KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX in addition to the ISO)

/dev/hdb1 (ext2)
 KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX
 boot/grub/menu.lst
 boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5
 boot/grub/stage1
 boot/grub/stage2
 boot/isolinux/boot.cat
 boot/isolinux/boot.msg
 boot/isolinux/f2
 boot/isolinux/f3
 boot/isolinux/german.kbd
 boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin
 boot/isolinux/isolinux.cfg
 boot/isolinux/linux
 boot/isolinux/logo.16
 boot/isolinux/memtest
 boot/isolinux/minirt.gz
 knoppix.sh

/dev/hdb2 (ReiserFS)
 KNOPPIX_V4.0.2CD-2005-09-23-EN.iso
 CD.iso (symlink to KNOPPIX_V4.0.2CD-2005-09-23-EN.iso)
 knoppix.img

===== menu.lst =====
default 0
timeout 300
title My Knoppix (+= myconf=scan)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/isolinux/linux ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us
apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt.gz nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
gmt lang=fi dma fromhd bootfrom=/dev/hdb2/CD.iso myconf=scan
initrd /boot/isolinux/minirt.gz
===== menu.lst =====

If you are interested about my setup, I can send more information.

( set -x
part=/mnt/hda1
find $part | xargs ls -lad
find $part -name 'menu.lst' | xargs tail +1
df -HTl $part
cat /proc/cmdline
uname -a
cat /etc/knoppix-version
) >& output.txt

You'd have to adjust part= to point to the partition containing the ISO.

I'm not quite sure how to apply this to my situation, as I'm using 2
partitions instead of one.

--
Markus Laire



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