grub boot disk worked !, detecting CD drive did *not* :(

goanuj

i'm tried using grub to boot the /isolinux directory on my Thinkpad 240x laptop cuz the damn thing does not have a bootable USB drive or cd drive (but it is so cute and tiny)

I have already copied all of stage 3 onto my /dev/hda7 partition so now I am trying to use grub to boot it up.

basically I followed this post:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=27951

StuBear · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 11:41 am Post subject:

Have you tried Knoppix? (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html for English, links to other languages on the page)

They have a floppy image on the CD. I've used it to install gentoo on a old compaq that didn't have support for booting from CD.

Just boot up knoppix, open an Xterm, and follow the instructions on the alternative install page (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml)
You want section 3.Installing Gentoo from an existing Linux distribution .

Good luck

quikchaos · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 107

I am also running into the same problems. I have a cute little ThinkPad 701 CS I am trying to get Gentoo onto with a PCMCIA Panasonic KXL-783A External CD-ROM Player.

So the Knoppix floppy image would get me up to accessing the Gentoo CD? If not, what about loading a driver for my D-Link PCMCIA DFE-670TXD to do a net install?

I would enjoy a how-to for a 240x, as it might apply to my 701CS (A.K.A. ButterFly).

Also, I tried using the Smart BootManager to boot off of the PCMCIA CD-ROM with no evail. I needed the IO port address for the card for SBM to see the drive. Anyone know what IO ports to use for this PC card? Does it matter that it is a SCSI-2 CD-ROM hooked up to the PCMCIA card?
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goanuj · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 6:00 pm Post subject: other questions

I also want to boot from Knoppix, however, I need the IO ports as well.

If I could find the right fscking module for my external PCMCIA card i may be able to insmod it and then access the CD drive, but I need help, I will try to get the information about the drive from my windows partition.

Well I found the external IO ports for my Toshiba XM-1902B (0x180,0x386) however, it does not look like Smart Boot detects or turns on the PCMCIA device. Does anyone have any more information on this?

Alternatively I need a bootdisk that can.

1. mount an ext3 drive
2. detect and use my pcmcia nic (3c574_cs)
3. get dhcp working!
4. chroot without errors!

I have tried toms root boot, does anyone have the 1.xxx series of the bootdisk? I heard that one did not have the chroot problems.

--Anuj

dol-sen · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2003 8:52 pm Post subject:

booting the 1.4_rc3 cd kernel from the hard drive still requires the cd in the drive to complete it's bootup process. I do not know how, if it is possible, to add pcmcia cdrom support to the install kernel.

Brian

quikchaos · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 107

Just to follow up. I just ended up swaping my laptop hard into another laptop with a CD-ROM. The system has been emerging for about 4 days. Still going...

I gave up on the PCMCIA CD-ROM though.
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reaz82 · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2003 10:40 pm Post subject:

4 days???
what are the specs on your laptop?
and what are you emerging exactly? which stage?

quikchaos · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 107

It's a 66Mhz Pentium w/ 24MB RAM. Believe it or not, I started at stage3. Friday night I started it with an emerge -u system, and it has been going ever since. I think I gave it 100MB swap too. I am compiling it all for 486 though. Would that have anything to do with it? This hard drive will be going into a ThinkPad 701CS. Also has 24MB RAM. It's just sitting on the side. I don't really care how long it takes. Would be a big waste if it craps out though.
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