On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Tom Oehser wrote:
> USB is completely unsupported, I did compile the modules and put them
> on the add-ons site, but I have never done any USB on tomsrtbt. I
> try to get as far as usb-storage working. But, the initrd *still* won't
> work, because the tomsrtbt cd boot initrd just boots and quits, it doesn't
> load modules then boot some more. -Tom
> On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, jason wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 22:42:20 -0500 (EST)
> > From: jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [tomsrtbt] ok, I think I have a valid question now.. ;)
> >
> > im trying to boot this off a 32meg usb disk. The problem is (i believe) is
> > that the usb modules (usb-storage,usbcore,usb-uhci) are not in the initrd.
> > when I put the bootable image onto the usb drive, I only get as far as:
> > L 80 80 80... etc..
What Tom has said is true but I don't think it applies in this case.
You diagnosis is definitly wrong too, at this stage it doesn't matter
what kernel or modules you have.
This error is what LILO says if it can't read the 2nd stage of the boot
loader, the error code (80) is a disk timeout. So I would say you've
told LILO that the image is for drive 0 (The floppy disk drive - eg:
you've just copied the normal *.img file onto the device) however,
the BIOS is calling it something else.
You can get a clue what drive the BIOS has chosen for it by seeing
what drive letter it's given if you boot DOS off it. If it's C: then
it's pretending to be a hard drive and probably is drive number 128
with the other hard drives renumbered to 129 and up.
If DOS sees it as drive A then the problem may be more subtle such
as a violently wrong geometry assumption or a very special dos boot
block (like the ones used to boot CDs without floppy emulation).
So the first thing to do now is to follow IBM's instructions on
how to make DOS boot off the device and see if:
1) If it works using a standard 'format x:' 'sys x:' method.
2) What drive it is after boot.
3) Do you need any special drivers after boot.
4) What's the disk geometry after boot (Use LILO's test4.com program
from DOS)
After that maybe you'll be able to convince LILO to play nice.
NB: Get the full documentation for LILO, you will need it.
MB2: If it will boot a standard 2880KiB DOS floppy image but not
TOMSrtbt's 2880KiB image I may be able to help there.
> > Are there docs or a response on the mailing list that clearly documents to
> > to add this? Ive extracted with the unpack.s, but dont see anywhere they
> > could go.. Im assuming they go in the initrd, but how do you get them in
> > there?
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