Hello Andrew, > Thanks for the advice. > > > I installed the (dos formatted, bootable) flash drive to my windows xp > computer and extracted the files from the windows executable directly to > the flash drive. > > I then replaced the original initrd.lrp with the renamed, ide one onto > the flash drive. I copied hdsupp.lrp to the flash drive. > > > Now, it is my understanding that I just need to modify syslinux.cfg and > leaf.cfg to point to hda1. Do I need to use a program like dos2unix > and/or unix2dos? If so, can someone tell me exactly how? > To be on the safe size I would indeed use dos2unix or a decent editor which understands unix lf.
> Then install the flash drive into the firewall, set the bios to boot from > it, and power up? Is that it? > You have to install syslinux on the flashdrive, but I think you did by reading the above. > The man pages say to not do auto settings in bios for the flash drive, > but when I went to my bios it was set to use LBA. Did you guys change > your bios to something in particular? > I use a pcengines WRAP board which defaults to CHS, I never tried LBA. But if the manpage say not to use auto settings, I would use CHS to be sure. > Andrew > Eric > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Erich Titl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 2:30 AM > To: Andrew Nance > Cc: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [leaf-user] booting from flash ide drive > > > Hi > > > Andrew Nance wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> >> I am trying get my 2.4.2 Bering uClibc firewall to boot from a 32 MB >> flash ide module. The computer is a DELL Pentium 3 machine with 3 nics. >> >> >> I have been trying to follow theses directions: >> http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/bk02ch11s03.html >> and http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/bk02ch11s05.html >> >> >> I am getting stuck trying to replace the extracted disk's initrd.lrp >> (286 >> kB) with initrd_ide_cd.lrp (which is 387 kB). My floppy is too full to >> replace the file. > > You want to place those files on the DOM. One way to do it is to attach > it to your linux host and load all necessary files to it. then put it to > your router and boot from it. I modified an old system to have the IDE > connector on the front panel for this purpose :-) > > Another way, boot from CD or floppy, partition and format the DOM, copy > everything needed and boot. > > Remember, once booted from the floppy, it is not needed anymore, you can > take another one to copy files from. > > cheers > > Erich > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn > cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
