grant centauri said : > I can sure give it a try. I don't know much about grub and booting, but I'm > assuming adding those lines to my grub.cfg and putting the /live folder where > its supposed to be under root should allow it to find the kernel and boot. I > can use a USB, but I was wondering if I created a hdd partition and labeled it > live-rw if that would work for persistence as well. >
definitely, any ext2 partition with that label will do (others: ext3 will work too, right?). > I would be interested in trying the CD+USB boot/install possibility, but I'm > not sure how that would work either. Something with editing the boot commands > to look for the kernel on the USB device somehow? > oh, my bad, I think I misunderstood. I'm not sure how that scenario would work. > I'll try some things in the next day or so and report back on whether anything > works. Thanks for the advice. > cool! > -grant > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:13 AM, Karsten Gebbert <[email protected]> wrote: > > grant centauri said : > > hello, > > > > i've been having trouble with an old laptop and its CD drive. In order > to even > > get pure:dyne to boot I was forced to use a regular CD-R, and when > trying > to > > install I get an I/O error. > > > > Instead of trying to burn another disc (I did successfully install on > another > > machine with it after all, plus I'm out of CD-Rs) I thought perhaps I'd > try to > > make a liveUSB and install from that. However, my machine is old enough > that > > it doesn't seem to want to boot from USB at all. So after a frustrating > night, > > I decided the easiest thing I could think of to get a puredyne realtime > kernel > > and start doing stuff was to grab the old leek and potato kernel on my > already > > running debian system and go from there. > > > > my goal was to get this laptop with a stable realtime setup so I can use > it for > > a performance next saturday. I could run just from the liveCD, but I > don't > > really want to chance something going wrong in the middle of a set. For > now, > > this solution seems okay, but I would like access to the newer software > and > > kernel. > > > > I guess I'm just bringing it up in case anyone had any solutions or work > > arounds in case something like this happens to anyone else. > > > > I was thinking that perhaps I could make a partition on the drive to be > a > > liveHD install of C&C? It seemed like the make-live-device script > wouldn't > > work for that because of an issue where if I put /dev/sda3 it was trying > to > > create partitions /dev/sda31 and /dev/sda32. Perhaps there's a minor > change to > > the script that could be made to allow it to live on a partition of a > drive? > > Or perhaps there's another method to put the ISO somewhere and make it > > bootable? It seemed like there was a way with leek&potato, but I wasn't > sure > > with C&C. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > maybe you could mount the iso on a loop, and cp the /live folder to > your root and boot everything using grub. I think there is an example > for the config in the iso in the extra folder. then you could use a > usb stick with a ext2 partition (and 'live-rw' label!) as your > persistence medium. > > would that work/help? > > greetings, > > karsten > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAktmqVEACgkQJYU9qnGdnMcwawCgoboSHdroyga8XKVqOGdGXPoP > tYMAn2S5K+V6/pjsTdf78R1WcQloTljK > =m8i5 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne > > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
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