RE: SUMMARY?: [Leaf-user] newbie question (Bering/2.4/IDE)
Good Work Man, keep up the fight. I am currently still in the planning stages of doing my own strip down and kernel recompile of Bering. I have been watching your mail exchanges and your success has been an inspiration. Thanks for the follow up post. Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Adrian Stovall Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 5:56 PM To: 'Brad Fritz'; Adrian Stovall Cc: LEAF (E-mail) Subject: SUMMARY?: [Leaf-user] newbie question (Bering/2.4/IDE) Whew! today was an adventure...I decided that I wanted to try to compile all the modules that I need/use into my own 2.4 kernel (ide, eepro, pci, etc). I grabbed the latest kernel source, put it on my old, rusty Pentium Pro 200/redhat 6.2 box, and followed the instructions in the readme (spent a while updating gcc and other packages that were a bit out-of-date in my distro). I used the bering.config as my starting point, and started changing m's, y's, and n's as appropriate and copied it as .config in the dir I untarred the kernel stuff in. I ran make oldconfig and make dep, made a bzImage, copied it to the HD of my router as "linux", etc...several hours and a few passes of syslinux later, I managed to get 2.4 to boot from the HD without having to include modules.lrp. Next up is some more slimming... I am a very happy man. If I can get the perl package to load successfully, I'll be a very happy man (and I'll work on getting a configuration utility I've been writing in perl to go). I want to thank everyone who responded...I may not follow everyones advice, but seeing the suggestions that people had made it easier for me to decide what road to travel. If I come up with any useful utilities, I'll be sure to let everybody in on it. -Original Message- From: Brad Fritz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 6:41 AM To: Adrian Stovall Cc: LEAF (E-mail) Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] newbie question (Bering/2.4/IDE) On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:48:09 CST Adrian wrote: > Hi all...I had successfully finished a previous install with a 2.2.19-IDE > kernel and run from a small IDE HD. Cool. > What I would like to do is repeat this with a 2.4 kernel (currently messing > around with Bering Beta4...no probs running from floppy). What do I need to > do to make this run from a hard drive? > > I'm hoping for something other than "compile a 2.4 kernel with IDE support > enabled", but I'll try to if I have no choice (severe lack of experience > with compiling a kernel on my own). Compiling a 2.4 kernel with IDE support using Jacques' kernel config [1] as a starting point shouldn't be too bad. For an alternative solution, read on... > Is there a 2.4-IDE kernel out there? Am I stupid, and there's some simple > config option to make the Bering 2.4 kernel boot from my HD? I recently setup Bering (beta 3) on a compact flash card plugged into an CF-to-IDE adaptor. I use the stock kernel with with the IDE modules loaded via the initrd image. This isn't necessarily easier than recompiling the kernel, but if you *really* want to avoid re-compiling the kernel, the procedure below should work. Disclaimer: This is mostly from memory, so there may be a few mistakes. I am also assuming the hard disk is /dev/hdc and is temporarily installed in a full-blown Linux system for installation of Bering. 1. Format a partition of your HDD with an MS-DOS filesystem as described in Charles' LRP Hard Disk HOTWO [2] or with the Linux fdisk and mkfs.msdos commands [3]. 2. Mount a copy of the Bering image somewhere convenient: mount -o loop /tmp/bering-1680-b4.bin /mnt/disk/ 3. Uncompress a copy of the Bering initrd.lrp: gunzip -c < /mnt/disk/initrd.lrp > /tmp/initrd 4. Mount the uncompressed ramdisk image: mount -o loop /tmp/initrd /mnt/initrd 5. Copy the ide-disk.o, ide-mod.o, and ide-probe-mod.o modules from the ide directory of Jacques' modules directory [4] to the mounted initrd image: cp /tmp/ide-disk.o /tmp/ide-mod.o /tmp/ide-probe-mod.o \ /mnt/initrd/boot/lib/modules/ 6. Add lines to boot/etc/modules of the initrd image to load the ide modules: echo ide-mod >> /mnt/initrd/boot/etc/modules echo ide-disk >> /mnt/initrd/boot/etc/modules echo ide-probe-mod >> /mnt/initrd/boot/etc/modules 7. Unmount the initrd image: umount /mnt/initrd 8. Mount the MS-DOS partition you created on the hard drive: mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/newdisk 9. Copy all files from the Bering image to the new disk: cp /mnt/disk/* /mnt/newdisk 10. Replace the old initrd.lrp with the new one: gzip -9 < /tmp/initrd > /mnt/newdisk/initrd.lrp 11. Edit syslinux.cfg on the new disk and change the fd0u1680
SUMMARY?: [Leaf-user] newbie question (Bering/2.4/IDE)
Whew! today was an adventure...I decided that I wanted to try to compile all the modules that I need/use into my own 2.4 kernel (ide, eepro, pci, etc). I grabbed the latest kernel source, put it on my old, rusty Pentium Pro 200/redhat 6.2 box, and followed the instructions in the readme (spent a while updating gcc and other packages that were a bit out-of-date in my distro). I used the bering.config as my starting point, and started changing m's, y's, and n's as appropriate and copied it as .config in the dir I untarred the kernel stuff in. I ran make oldconfig and make dep, made a bzImage, copied it to the HD of my router as "linux", etc...several hours and a few passes of syslinux later, I managed to get 2.4 to boot from the HD without having to include modules.lrp. Next up is some more slimming... I am a very happy man. If I can get the perl package to load successfully, I'll be a very happy man (and I'll work on getting a configuration utility I've been writing in perl to go). I want to thank everyone who responded...I may not follow everyones advice, but seeing the suggestions that people had made it easier for me to decide what road to travel. If I come up with any useful utilities, I'll be sure to let everybody in on it. -Original Message- From: Brad Fritz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 6:41 AM To: Adrian Stovall Cc: LEAF (E-mail) Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] newbie question (Bering/2.4/IDE) On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:48:09 CST Adrian wrote: > Hi all...I had successfully finished a previous install with a 2.2.19-IDE > kernel and run from a small IDE HD. Cool. > What I would like to do is repeat this with a 2.4 kernel (currently messing > around with Bering Beta4...no probs running from floppy). What do I need to > do to make this run from a hard drive? > > I'm hoping for something other than "compile a 2.4 kernel with IDE support > enabled", but I'll try to if I have no choice (severe lack of experience > with compiling a kernel on my own). Compiling a 2.4 kernel with IDE support using Jacques' kernel config [1] as a starting point shouldn't be too bad. For an alternative solution, read on... > Is there a 2.4-IDE kernel out there? Am I stupid, and there's some simple > config option to make the Bering 2.4 kernel boot from my HD? I recently setup Bering (beta 3) on a compact flash card plugged into an CF-to-IDE adaptor. I use the stock kernel with with the IDE modules loaded via the initrd image. This isn't necessarily easier than recompiling the kernel, but if you *really* want to avoid re-compiling the kernel, the procedure below should work. Disclaimer: This is mostly from memory, so there may be a few mistakes. I am also assuming the hard disk is /dev/hdc and is temporarily installed in a full-blown Linux system for installation of Bering. 1. Format a partition of your HDD with an MS-DOS filesystem as described in Charles' LRP Hard Disk HOTWO [2] or with the Linux fdisk and mkfs.msdos commands [3]. 2. Mount a copy of the Bering image somewhere convenient: mount -o loop /tmp/bering-1680-b4.bin /mnt/disk/ 3. Uncompress a copy of the Bering initrd.lrp: gunzip -c < /mnt/disk/initrd.lrp > /tmp/initrd 4. Mount the uncompressed ramdisk image: mount -o loop /tmp/initrd /mnt/initrd 5. Copy the ide-disk.o, ide-mod.o, and ide-probe-mod.o modules from the ide directory of Jacques' modules directory [4] to the mounted initrd image: cp /tmp/ide-disk.o /tmp/ide-mod.o /tmp/ide-probe-mod.o \ /mnt/initrd/boot/lib/modules/ 6. Add lines to boot/etc/modules of the initrd image to load the ide modules: echo ide-mod >> /mnt/initrd/boot/etc/modules echo ide-disk >> /mnt/initrd/boot/etc/modules echo ide-probe-mod >> /mnt/initrd/boot/etc/modules 7. Unmount the initrd image: umount /mnt/initrd 8. Mount the MS-DOS partition you created on the hard drive: mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/newdisk 9. Copy all files from the Bering image to the new disk: cp /mnt/disk/* /mnt/newdisk 10. Replace the old initrd.lrp with the new one: gzip -9 < /tmp/initrd > /mnt/newdisk/initrd.lrp 11. Edit syslinux.cfg on the new disk and change the fd0u1680 references to hdc1. 12. Unmount the hard drive: umount /mnt/newdisk 13. Run syslinux on the hard drive partition: syslinux /dev/hdc1 14. Cross your fingers and try to boot from the new image. :) If you run into problems, setting the VERBOSE and DEBUG flags in /linuxrc (in the initrd file system) may help debugging them. > I'm running this on a Dell PowerApp Web 100 (single PIII-73/256MB/dual > EEPro100) and using Bering Beta4/Syslinux 1.66 on my HD. > > Any info
Re: [Leaf-user] newbie question (Bering/2.4/IDE)
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:48:09 CST Adrian wrote: > Hi all...I had successfully finished a previous install with a 2.2.19-IDE > kernel and run from a small IDE HD. Cool. > What I would like to do is repeat this with a 2.4 kernel (currently messing > around with Bering Beta4...no probs running from floppy). What do I need to > do to make this run from a hard drive? > > I'm hoping for something other than "compile a 2.4 kernel with IDE support > enabled", but I'll try to if I have no choice (severe lack of experience > with compiling a kernel on my own). Compiling a 2.4 kernel with IDE support using Jacques' kernel config [1] as a starting point shouldn't be too bad. For an alternative solution, read on... > Is there a 2.4-IDE kernel out there? Am I stupid, and there's some simple > config option to make the Bering 2.4 kernel boot from my HD? I recently setup Bering (beta 3) on a compact flash card plugged into an CF-to-IDE adaptor. I use the stock kernel with with the IDE modules loaded via the initrd image. This isn't necessarily easier than recompiling the kernel, but if you *really* want to avoid re-compiling the kernel, the procedure below should work. Disclaimer: This is mostly from memory, so there may be a few mistakes. I am also assuming the hard disk is /dev/hdc and is temporarily installed in a full-blown Linux system for installation of Bering. 1. Format a partition of your HDD with an MS-DOS filesystem as described in Charles' LRP Hard Disk HOTWO [2] or with the Linux fdisk and mkfs.msdos commands [3]. 2. Mount a copy of the Bering image somewhere convenient: mount -o loop /tmp/bering-1680-b4.bin /mnt/disk/ 3. Uncompress a copy of the Bering initrd.lrp: gunzip -c < /mnt/disk/initrd.lrp > /tmp/initrd 4. Mount the uncompressed ramdisk image: mount -o loop /tmp/initrd /mnt/initrd 5. Copy the ide-disk.o, ide-mod.o, and ide-probe-mod.o modules from the ide directory of Jacques' modules directory [4] to the mounted initrd image: cp /tmp/ide-disk.o /tmp/ide-mod.o /tmp/ide-probe-mod.o \ /mnt/initrd/boot/lib/modules/ 6. Add lines to boot/etc/modules of the initrd image to load the ide modules: echo ide-mod >> /mnt/initrd/boot/etc/modules echo ide-disk >> /mnt/initrd/boot/etc/modules echo ide-probe-mod >> /mnt/initrd/boot/etc/modules 7. Unmount the initrd image: umount /mnt/initrd 8. Mount the MS-DOS partition you created on the hard drive: mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/newdisk 9. Copy all files from the Bering image to the new disk: cp /mnt/disk/* /mnt/newdisk 10. Replace the old initrd.lrp with the new one: gzip -9 < /tmp/initrd > /mnt/newdisk/initrd.lrp 11. Edit syslinux.cfg on the new disk and change the fd0u1680 references to hdc1. 12. Unmount the hard drive: umount /mnt/newdisk 13. Run syslinux on the hard drive partition: syslinux /dev/hdc1 14. Cross your fingers and try to boot from the new image. :) If you run into problems, setting the VERBOSE and DEBUG flags in /linuxrc (in the initrd file system) may help debugging them. > I'm running this on a Dell PowerApp Web 100 (single PIII-73/256MB/dual > EEPro100) and using Bering Beta4/Syslinux 1.66 on my HD. > > Any info is *greatly* appreciated. I've probably missed a few details here or there, but it should give you an idea for an approach that doesn't require a kernel recompilealthough recompiling the kernel with IDE support is probably less work. ;) --Brad [1] http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/bering/beta4/bering-b4.config [2] http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/Documentation/LRPHardDiskHOWTO.txt [3] I had trouble getting the mkfs.msdos created filesystem to boot correctly using syslinux, but it was probably due to an error on my part. [4] http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/bering/beta4/modules/drivers/ide/ > TIA > > Adrian ___ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
RE: [Leaf-user] newbie question (Bering/2.4/IDE)
First familiarise yourself with the general methods for running from hard disk via the excellent HOWTO on the LEAF site. Bering's kernel has module support for IDE built in (always a good idea to check the kernel config file which most developers provide with the dist so you can check what is in and out of the kernel). This means that you need to load the ide modules at boot time. The ide modules are available from leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/ and are called ide-mod.o, ide-disk.o and ide-probe.mod.o. The procedure for adding modules to /boot/lib/modules is described in the docs on Jacques' LEAF site. Finally make sure you follow the HOWTO on the necessary changes to syslinux and it works. How do I know? Because I happen to have done it on Monday. Good luck rgds/andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Adrian Stovall Sent: 26 February 2002 20:48 To: LEAF (E-mail) Subject: [Leaf-user] newbie question (Bering/2.4/IDE) Hi all...I had successfully finished a previous install with a 2.2.19-IDE kernel and run from a small IDE HD. What I would like to do is repeat this with a 2.4 kernel (currently messing around with Bering Beta4...no probs running from floppy). What do I need to do to make this run from a hard drive? I'm hoping for something other than "compile a 2.4 kernel with IDE support enabled", but I'll try to if I have no choice (severe lack of experience with compiling a kernel on my own). Is there a 2.4-IDE kernel out there? Am I stupid, and there's some simple config option to make the Bering 2.4 kernel boot from my HD? I'm running this on a Dell PowerApp Web 100 (single PIII-73/256MB/dual EEPro100) and using Bering Beta4/Syslinux 1.66 on my HD. Any info is *greatly* appreciated. TIA Adrian ___ 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
[Leaf-user] newbie question (Bering/2.4/IDE)
Hi all...I had successfully finished a previous install with a 2.2.19-IDE kernel and run from a small IDE HD. What I would like to do is repeat this with a 2.4 kernel (currently messing around with Bering Beta4...no probs running from floppy). What do I need to do to make this run from a hard drive? I'm hoping for something other than "compile a 2.4 kernel with IDE support enabled", but I'll try to if I have no choice (severe lack of experience with compiling a kernel on my own). Is there a 2.4-IDE kernel out there? Am I stupid, and there's some simple config option to make the Bering 2.4 kernel boot from my HD? I'm running this on a Dell PowerApp Web 100 (single PIII-73/256MB/dual EEPro100) and using Bering Beta4/Syslinux 1.66 on my HD. Any info is *greatly* appreciated. TIA Adrian ___ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
