2010/2/2 Karsten Gebbert <[email protected]>: > grant centauri said : >> Well, unfortunately I wasn't able to figure out how to boot from USB on my >> other machine either, I tried various settings in the BIOS for using my SD >> card, but I never did get a boot from it. So either it isn't working >> correctly >> (can one use an SD card and reader as opposed to a USB stick?) or I just >> don't >> know what I'm doing. And yes, I used the script to format the SD card and >> make >> it the puredyne live system. >> > > hm, on some machines there is a boot device chooser when pressing F12 > or something like that when the computer just powers on. maybe you > have something like that and it didn't tell you? > >> Anyways... since none of that seemed to work, I decided to go ahead and try >> the >> liveHD, which aside from a few minor snags went fine. > > cool! > >> >> Just to point out, the menu.lst file in the /extra/grub directory has the >> kernel pointing to /live/vmlinuz1 and also /live/initrd1.img when the files >> in >> the /live directory are named simply vmlinuz and initrd.img. After changing >> that the system booted just fine. I am a bit confused as to how to define >> the >> persistent medium (i have a logical ext2 partition named live-rw i want to >> use) >> but I also haven't really done much digging yet either. >> >> A few questions: >> >> What is the grub.cfg file in the extra folder and should I do something with >> it >> for my liveHD install? >> > > I'm not 100% sure, but afaik this is the config file for those who use > grub2 as their bootloader. quite a lot changed from grub 1 to 2 and > this is part of it I think.
Yes it is. You shouldn't edit it (unlike grub1 where you configure it by hacking the file) - if you want to change it you use a grub2 command from a running system to recreate it based on what os's are around. It's a shame grub2 is so new it's hard to find a good tutorial (linux format had a good one in their mag a month or so ago) Dan --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
