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Message-ID: <3C915EB8.348C94CA@tls.msk.ru>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 05:38:48 +0300
From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Installing on old machine
Michael Tokarev wrote:
>
> Stephan Lagerholm wrote:
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Im trying to install OWL on an old x86-P90 with 16 meg memory that are
> > unable to boot via CD-rom.
> >
> > Questions:
> >
> > 1. I have bootable redhat on the hd, can that be used in some way to
> > force the machine to boot from cdrom?
>
> If the kernel that is on your machine has CD-rom drivers compiled in
> (default for RedHat), you should be able to do so -- maybe. Telling
> lilo to pass appropriate `root=/dev/hdX' argument to the kernel so
> it will try to mount your cdrom as root filesystem. Better yet is
> to copy kernel from installation CD to your harddrive and tell lilo
> to use it as well as your RedHat's kernel, and use it to boot off the
> CD. Just add
>
> image=/boot/owl-boot-kernel append="root=/dev/your-cd-rom"
>
> to /etc/lilo.conf and call lilo to write new table.
>
> But I can't say what other parameters should be passed to boot kernel,
> and where it can be found (I never installed Owl or any other linux
> distro this way, all my installations was done manually copying appropriate
> files to new HD and making it bootable).
You also may try to expiriment with
(lilo.conf)
other=/dev/your-cd-rom label=cdrom
and type `cdrom' at your LILO: prompt. If this will work, it is the
most natural and simple method. But I don't know if this will work
or not... ;)
> > 3. The boot floppy don't give the cdrom as an option to boot from. Have I
> > missed something here?
A guess. Should another boot-image be inside cd-rom? I.e., when ISO gets
created, something should be placed into it's boot area -- something that
is sutable for booting off the cdrom, yes (El-torio boot ext)? So such an
image should be available somewhere, and if one writes it to a floppy...
But again, I'm not sure, just a guess.
Regards,
Michael.
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