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? Then install the flash drive into the firewall, set the bios to boot from it, and power up? Is that it? 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? Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Erich Titl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 2:30 AM To: Andrew Nance Cc: [email protected] 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: [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
