From: Vieira Netto (vieira@intermega.com.br)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2000 - 19:52:51 CET
HY Renato!
The problem is that you dont have a boot Device. MuLinux can be loaded
from any HD.
Your MBoard probably cant boot from Slave.
But you can make a Remote Boot with a Nic containing the apropriate
Eprom, or from floppy but you dont hade one.
best regards,
Vieira
Vieira@intermega.com.br
Linux User #100.600
Microsoft??? Marca nova de papel Higiênico???
Renato escreveu:
>
> Michele,
>
> I am trying to make a Frankenstein based on an good old mainboard (386DX40 + 8M) and a 40MB laptop hard disk, without floppy drive (unfortunately I have no working 5-1/4 floppies anymore).
> I cloned a UMSDOS mulinux installation to the HD but I could not configure it to work as master drive.
> Do you know if the procedure you sugest below would work if I used root=/dev/hdb1 (first slave HD partition eith no master HD)?
>
> Renato
>
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
>
> On 23/01/00 at 23:43 Michele Andreoli wrote:
>
> >On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 09:52:22PM -0000, Owen Kelly nicely wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> This is a trivial question, but is it possible to get mulinux to boot from a
> >> hard disk, rather than a floppy?
> >
> >muLinux ran in RAM, but can be "cloned" in HD. Recent muLinux run also
> >from read-only devices. Please, issue "clone" a the prompt but, first,
> >issue "help" and read any doc you find, or you destroy your data.
> >
> >>Ive been trying with tomsrtbt disk, to no
> >> success, but Im no guru either. I have an old 486 laptop with 8 megs of
> >> ram, and a 4 gig disk, but no OS on the disk, Id primarily like to use Linux
> >> on it and run it as a web server in a tiny little corner of my office, but I
> >> havent had much luck getting things to run so far. What I basically want to
> >> do is have a minimal OS on the disk, and perhaps add in the extras disks
> >> from muLinux to also end up on the hard disk aswell.
> >
> >muLinux is perfect for that. But if you has no OS on your first disk,
> >you have to install LILO on it, to boot muLinux.
> >
> >1) issue, clone and select Ext2 model of cloning
> >2) specify /dev/null when clone ask you for a BOOT partition
> >
> >When cloning process finished, issue
> >
> > # liloconfig
> >
> >this will put LILO on your bootable disk.
> >
> >If you got problem installing LILO, use the first floppy to start
> >muLinux. When the string "boot:" appairs, write that:
> >
> > boot: mulinux root=/dev/hdxy
> >
> >If your disk is primary, and has only a partition,
> >
> > root=/dev/hda1
> >
> >do the work.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Is there a simple way to do this? Or am I being naive, and someone else has
> >> already documented it? ;)
> >
> >Thousand people cloned muLinux: I hope it works also for you.
> >
> >Michele
> >
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