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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, sindi keesan wrote:

> Using my 2.4.31 scsi kernel with BL2 ramdisk or BL3 loop
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> Uncompressing linux ...
> Ok, booting the kernel
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> After this I eventually power off.
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> I have booted to BL on scsi with the scsi 2.4.31 kernel, from a DOS
> partition on an IDE drive (loadlin).  Why can't I boot from a DOS
> partition on scsi drive with the same scsi kernel?

Boot into ramdisk BL3 on an IDE drive.

cd /DOS/baslin
cp initfs.gz scsi.gz
gunzip scsi.gz
mount -o loop initfs /mnt
cd /mnt
ls   - there are /bin, /dev, /proc, and a file linuxrc

In dev there are hda1-4 hdb1-4 hdc1 hdd1 but no sda anything.
I will need to mknod /dev/sda1 (the DOS partition on the scsi drive from 
which loop BL3.4 is being run).

Do I also need sda2 and sda3 for loop linux?  They are linux ext2 
partitions to which I want to copy files, but I think I have these devices 
in the regular /dev/ directory of BL3.

linuxrc is a batch file which checks for a /baslin directory on /dev/hda1 
to hda4 and gives error messages if not found.  I need to change the first 
to /dev/sda1 and delete the rest, for this computer.

Umount mnt, gzip scsi, copy it to the scsi computer.
Copy boot.bat to scsi.bat and change initfs.gz to scsi.gz.
Boot BL3.40 loop with 'scsi' instead of 'boot', using a kernel with 
built-in scsi support (scsi_mod and sd_mod).
Boot ext2 BL3.40 on that computer with the same kernel, root=/dev/sda2.

Steven, perhaps you could, in the next BL, add an error message for people 
who do not have a /dev/hda*, that suggests editing linuxrc and adding the 
/dev for things like scsi drive, usb pen drive, optical drive, or whatever 
else someone might try to boot from using another kernel with support for 
that device.

I will edit BL2 baslin.gz similarly.