On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 14:02:26 -0700, lowrider wrote:
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> Douglas Mayne wrote:
>> On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 04:17:36 -0700, lowrider wrote:
>>
>> > Thanx for the speedy reply. Slackware has a zipslack and a floppy
>> > boodisk.img that they say should do the trick. When I boot from floppy
>> > and specify mount root=/dev/sda1, it does not find the file system.
>> > Could it be that my initrd is not waiting for the pendrive to
>> > initialize as mentioned in your usb setup documentation. How can I try
>> > to include a sleep functionality on this bootdisk image?
>> > There may be instructions on the panasonic.jp site to boot msdos and
>> > make the pendrive look like a cdrom drive, but I havent gotten the
>> > nerve yet to run yahoo translator on the site.
>> >
>> I am a bit confused about exactly what you are trying to do using
>> zipslack. Can you point me to some resource you are relying on to load
>> slax?
>>
>> Back up a minute...
>> First, can you boot Slax using the cdrom? That would be the standard way
>> to start Slax.
>>
>> BTW, your response removed all previous context. That's ok, if that is
>> what you intended to do. If not, you might want to consult this for some
>> tips using google to post to Usenet, courtesy CBFalconer's sig:
>>
>> "If you want to post a followup via groups.google.com, don't use
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>>
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> Yes this laptop does have a cdrom. I can run slax live from the cd. I
> dont want to keep downloading my modules and running the cdrom motor.
> I have 160mb not enough to do copy2ram. I was able to boot from from
> floppy to zipslack(no apps) on pendrive with some boot image I found
> while googling around. As I said I ran the make_disk script from the
> slax cd to pendrive. That's the filesystem i want to use (rw). I
> don't how to get the boot disk to read the bigger kernel/initrd on the
> slax distro.
> Thanx
>
Notice: I have cut/pasted your response to follow the format adopted by
this newsgroup. In the future, please don't top post.
I am not an expert with Slax, but I did download version 5.1.7, a new
version which is "hot of the presses." I performed some more tests with
it today. I tried to match your working environment- I have an old laptop
which won't boot from USB either. I used the script make_disk.sh to copy
the files from the CD to a USB flash drive. I thought there was a chance
it could work when booting from the CD-ROM (kernel and initdrd). I booted
with the CD and specified the slax startup command line parameter,
"slax from=/dev/sda1." In short I couldn't get it to work because flash is
not recognized early enough in the startup sequence. (Flash becomes
available only after it is recognized during the rc.hotplug startup
script.) I think Slax must see its files on CD and not worry about the
"from" directive. The Slax documentation says that booting from USB will
require BIOS support, and without hacking the Slax startup scripts, that
appears to be the truth. You could attempt to hack the script, but I don't
think I will. There is also a Slax Q and A board here:
http://www.slax.org/forum/
Someone there may be able to help you there. Good luck.
--
Douglas Mayne