I think you may need to edit your syslinux.cfg file (ran into this myself on my first couple of hard-disk-install attempts). Coyote, as far as I've seen so far, seems to do things pretty much the same way as any other LRP setup. Make sure you edit the line in syslinux.cfg that reads something like:
append=load_ramdisk=1 initrd=root.tgz initrd_archive=minix LRP=etc,log,local,modules,config ramdisk_size=4096 root=/dev/ram0 boot=/dev/fd0,msdos that last bit (assuming you're changing to an IDE disk drive that's the primary master) should be changed to: boot=/dev/hda1,msdos in order for linux to read the modules and files from the hard disk (hda1) instead of the floppy (fd0). >-----Original Message----- >From: Ray Olszewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 10:34 AM >To: Allan Applebee; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] help with hard drive install > > >Specifics below. In addition to them, you might want to tell >us the basics >of the hardware involved. > >At 06:57 PM 12/17/01 +0930, Allan Applebee wrote: >>Hi all, >>I hope you guys a more help full than the guys a coyotelinux. > >Me too ... but we aren't very likely to be helpful regarding problems >specific to Coyote. It forked from LRP several years ago, long >before the >LEAF project was started, and I don't think anyone here >actually uses Coyote. > >That said, your problem sounds like it *might* be at the level >of floppy >creation or syslinux operation, not Coyote specifically, so if >you give us a >bit more information, someone here *might* be able to help at >that level. >But if you want more extensive help than that ... well, my >main suggestion >is that you try one of the current LEAF versions available on our site >(DachStein or Oxygen). > >>I am trying to get coyotelinux to boot from a hard drive. >>The floppy I make in windows works. > >What does "works" mean? Your later comments make it sound like >the floppy >doesn't "work". > >>I have a 50 meg h/d to speed up boot time etc. >>I followed the instructions on LEAF and every thing go ok >till it loads >>root.tgz then it said an error for the floppy drive. > >What instructions are you referring to (I don't think we have any >instructions anywhere that apply to Coyote)? Please quote the >EXACT error >message and the line that precedes it (so we can locate it in >the boot/init >process more exactly). > >>It also can not find the modules to load. >>If I boot up and put the floppy in before modules load it >loads from the >>floppy ok an every thing works. > >This comment seems related to the error message you mention >earlier. I don't >know how Coyote handles modules, though, and I don't really >understand how >you "boot up" before you "put the floppy in". Are you booting >the system >from the hard drive at this point? > >>I have changed the syslinux.cfg file in note pad, dos edit as per LEAF >>instructions. >>I think the problem is in root.tgz but I am lost as to how to fix it. > >Changed it from what to what? (Please quote the before and >after EXACTLY.) >Once again, I don't know if our instructions apply to Coyote >(though the >syslinux part of them is likely to be close, their handling of >modules might >be different from the LEAF standard). > >>I work with ms products, I am new to linux. >[html repeat deleted] > > >-- >------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--- >Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo >Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] >---------------------------------------------------------------- > > >_______________________________________________ >Leaf-user mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
