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On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 14:59 -0700, David Wilk wrote: |
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> Howdy folks, |
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> I've taken the gentoo 2004.3 livecd and customized it a bit as an |
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> install cd. I made my own kernel with an internal initramfs with |
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> gensplash that uses an external initrd as well just like the livecd. |
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> This works perfectly (just like the livecd) when the BIOS is |
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> configured to boot from the CD. |
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> |
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> I have, however, a method to allow booting from the CD without |
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> actually bootstraping from the CD. THe running system (from the HD) |
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> mounts the CD, copies the kernel and initrd onto the HD, runs lilo |
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> with those as defaults and then reboots. When the system comes back |
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> up, it loads the CD kernel and initrd off the HD and the system boots |
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> just as if the BIOS had booted the CD. |
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> My problem is this. Although the kernel and internal initramfs load |
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> just fine off the CD resulting in a beautiful bootsplash screen, it |
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> does no such thing when loaded off the HD. THe kernel boots fine, but |
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> the initramfs is not loaded and there is no bootsplash. I have the |
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> same kernel boot 'append' line in both isolinux.cfg on the CD as well |
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> as in /etc/lilo.conf on the HD. |
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Could you post the append line? It might make it easier for people to |
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visualize. |
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> I've spent days puzzling over which lilo or kernel parameters might |
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> make this work and have come up with nothing. If anyone has any ideas |
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> I would love to hear them. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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