Ok, so on my various tests of the iso of trinux and creating a boot disk
using the enclosed file I find myself with the dilemma of being unable to
boot from the floppy or cdrom because of the various bios configurations I am
running around to test. They are configured to boot from the hd and password
protect the bios. In the older versions of trinux, ala trinuxhd, I could
shutdown windows to dos and then use loadlin to get trinux going, but it
seems I can't seem to do this with the latest version. So before coming here
to complain, I mean suggest stuff, I tried the following.
I tried this on a 486 test bed to see if the bios doesn't go away, it is
running win95 because it isn't mine and it doesn't get used much.
1. Put loadlin on the boot disk, booted to dos, and tried:
a:
loadlin bzImage init=initrd.gz
Either I don't have the patience to wait and see what happens or something
isn't working correctly and it just seems to sit there.
2. Load up debug and try something funky.
a:
debug
l 100 0 0 1
g
That's right load up the boot sector of the boot floppy and run it.
On my 486 w/95 I got some ascii characters you normally only see in binary
files and hanged.
So I pressed control-c and what do you know it booted.
I tried the same thing on a P133 w/98 and it says "the program has performed
some illegal operation, if it continues contact the author of the program," a
paraphrase. I crash back to dos.
So this is really a hack to see if things can be done another way. I have
tried playing with faking the boot sequence by loading the sector, copying it
to 0000:7C00 and running it, but things just seem to hang when I try to run
the code.
Is there something I should load the registers with to get things moving in
the right direction. I know that ax, bx, cx, and dx are all zero when I run
the sector so maybe there should be something in them. To put it another way
what assumptions is the loader making? so that I might try to make it work
correctly.
Also some little things I have issues with. It used to be trinux informed me
of the cdroms I have, but now I see no notice of the hardware it is
detecting/not detecting. It would be nice to see them once again if it is not
too much trouble or maybe I am missing the info as my screen scrolls by.
There are a Teac CD-56E and a HP CD-Writer+ 8200 on the P133 and neither seem
to be recognized. However on another machine trinux found the cdrom drive and
loaded everything correctly during the normal floppy boot, but failed to load
the network card. (Sorry I forgot to get the network card info, so I don't
know what it is although the nic is working under trinuxhd.) The older
version of trinux detected my cdrom drives and my network card, which most of
the distros can't even do so that was very cool!
Trinux is beta and I am damn lucky to have a chance to try it out so please
don't think these are complaints.
Thank you very much.
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