The crucial bit is: You need to create a < 8mb FAT12 primary partition on the hard disk. This partition needs to be bootable.
Next dd the .lzdsk file into the partition. dd if=BOOTROM_IMAGE.lzdsk of=/dev/hda1
We used grub to choose whether to boot this partition but there's no reason it shouldn't boot directly.
Hope that helps
Robert Pinner Clockwork Software Systems
LinuxLingam wrote:
dear all,
for the record, i tried your suggestion of: #dd if=/dev/*.zdsk of=/dev/hdb
this on a hd with no partitions. it did not work.
then, also created a small partition made active, and tried: #dd if=/dev/*.zdsk of=/dev/hdb1
did not work. in both cases the error is the same, the hex code that shows the pc has found nothing on the hardisk to boot.
so here's the brute-force fix that works, but it is not the solution:
took the hardisk, that boots an ltsp workstation and cloned it to the second hardisk. #dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hdc
this works, but i still don't know how or why. so for the moment, the client is happy as his workstations are gonna get converted to ltsp workstations.
for the record, about that original, working hardisk. a few months ago, i was trying the same objective, (boot an ltsp workstation from a hardisk, as if it's a boot floppy). during my experiments, had also tried a lilo boot on it. so it still has a 500mb RH8 install, with an additional unformatted 3.5gb. when the pc boots, it shows no lilo or grub, and immediately boots via ltsp.
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