The way I put tomsrtbt on a hard drive is to boot tomsrtbt, mount the floppy, fdisk the hard drive, format a partition, blast everything over from the floppy and the ramdisk using the magical "cp" command, make a lilo.conf, fix up rational rc.S and rc.M and settings.s and rc.custom changes for the hard drive environment, run lilo, voila.
I have always taken the support position that if the above instructions are inadequate for anyone, they shouldn't be running tomsrtbt from hard drive, as it is not designed for that, and there are pitfalls, and there are better choices. Definitely search the mailing list archives and the wiki for references to loadlin, as that option has been used somehow successfully by others, though I do not use loadlin myself. -Tom On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Stephane Boireau wrote: > Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 19:30:14 +0100 > From: Stephane Boireau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [tomsrtbt] Tomsrtbt on hard-drive with loadlin? > > Hi, > > I'm trying to start Tomsrtbt from MSDOS [Menu] with loadlin. > > Here comes what I did: > mount -o loop tomsrtbt-2.0.103-Eltorito.288.img /mnt/disk > > cp /mnt/disk/bz2bzImage /mnt/win/loadlin/tomcd/ > mv /mnt/win/loadlin/tomcd/bz2bzImage /mnt/win/loadlin/tomcd/rtbt > > cp /mnt/disk/initrd.bz2 /mnt/win/loadlin/tomcd/ > > I put loadlin.exe in /mnt/win/loadlin/tomcd/ too. > > And in autoexec.bat: > =================================== > goto %config% > > :win > <<...>> > goto fin > > :tomsrtbt > mode con codepage prepare=((850) C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ega.cpi) > mode con codepage select=850 > keyb fr,,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\keyboard.sys > smartdrv /C > c: > cd loadlin\tomcd > c:\loadlin\tomcd\loadlin c:\loadlin\tomcd\rtbt initrd=initrd.bz2 > root=/dev/ram0 rw > goto fin > =================================== > > And when I select tomsrtbt, it starts booting but: > > ... > Partition check: > hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 > > hdc: hdc1 hdc2 <> > NTFS version 000607 > [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 0,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap] > [me=0x0,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0,ds=0,de=0,data=0,se=0,ts=0,ls=0,rc=0,fc=4294967295] > Transaction block size = 512 > [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 0,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap] > [me=0x0,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0,ds=0,de=0,data=0,se=0,ts=0,ls=0,rc=0,fc=4294967295] > Transaction block size = 512 > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00 > > Where did I do a mistake? > > Thank you very much. > > PS: > If there is another solution to put Tomsrtbt on hard-drive it interest me too. > -- > Stephane Boireau > Personne ressource TICE du coll�ge Le Hameau � Bernay (27) > >
