I just booted the slackware-9.0-iso on a rather old Compaq Deskpro 2000 (pentium 120 MHz with f00f bug), did a 'dmesg|head' and found this:
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/kernels/bare.i/bzImage initrd=initrd.img load_ramdisk=1 \ prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=6464 rw root=/dev/ram SLACK_KERNEL=bare.i So, somehow, when the system boots from CDROM, its pwd=/isolinux/ because there is no path in 'initrd=initrd.img', but there is a path in 'BOOT_IMAGE=/kernels/bare.i/bzImage'. Is there a way to copy the CDROM's root filesystem to /dev/hdb1 and alter the default 'scsi.s' bootdisk so that it loads the root image from /dev/hdb1? rdev? Can the boot files be copied to /dev/hdb1 and the 'scsi.s' bootdisk be altered to boot /dev/hdb1/kernels/scsi.s/bzImage and the root /dev/hdb1/isolinux/initrd.img? Then the CDROM and be mounted on the SCSI CDROM drive and the install begun. Heck, why not copy /isolinux/*, /kernels/scsi.s/*, & /slackware/* to /dev/hdb1? Wondering... Chuck pa3gcu wrote: > > On Monday 09 June 2003 11:59, Chuck Gelm wrote: > > Hal: > > > > I've created slackware-8.1-iso & slackware-9.0-iso CDROMs. > > I have exhausted attempts to use them as install media > > while booting from a single floppy. > > The idea that has been adopted by Slack for booting from a cdrom is very easy > and AFAIK is going to be keep that way. > Are you saying that your cdrom does not boot the system and/or not find your > hardware properly.?? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
