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  • From: Hermang Mansilla <herman_blues AT yahoo.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] IBM-with-onboard-RAM boot problems, ramdisk and loop
  • Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:42:00 -0800 (PST)

Hi
a quick hack solution:
Download the iso image of geexbox (5MB)
burn it to a CD and boot from it
In the Boot menu pick install to usb-stick
Then boot with Windows or Linux, Browse the usb drive
edit file
boot\geexbox\menu.lst
Add other boot options for other operating systems
DOS, Linux, Windows, etc.
Reboot!



--- sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Ron Clarke wrote:
>
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:29:00 +0000 (UTC)
> > sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Are there computers which will boot directly from
> USB memory stick in
> >> cases where the manufacturer was so cheap that
> there is no floppy drive?
> >
>
> > I have a machine that has the option to boot
> from a USB drive as the
> > first option. As I don't have a USB stick, I
> haven't tried it.
>
> To boot DOS from USB stick on a computer with no
> floppy drive, would we
> just sys that drive? It is FAT16 already.
>
>
> > But: it also has a floppy drive, hard disks and
> CD/DVD to boot from, so I don't actually have the
> need.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ron
> >
>
> Sindi
>
> keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
> SDF Public Access UNIX System -
> http://sdf.lonestar.org
>
>
> We just confirmed that an HP with onboard i810
> video/sound chip also will
> not boot BL3 loop if you boot DOS with himem.sys
> (plain 2.2.16 and 2.2.26
> and also P1 2.2.26 and 2.4.31 kernels).
>
> Without himem.sys, the P1 2.4.31 and the P1 2.2.26
> kernel boot and the
> non-P1 2.2.26 kernel gets as far as 'invalid
> compressed format' and we
> can't reboot without the power switch. Same as the
> IBM with that chip.
>
> The above holds for USB memory stick or hard drive
> boot. I assume BL3
> loop will have the same problems as on the IBM with
> i810 chip.
>
> Avoid non-pentium (generic BL) kernels on these
> computers (I don't think
> any 486s used system RAM for video anyway), and
> specify RAM minus 1M
> (mem=127M if you have 128MB) or use a 2.4 kernel
> because 2.2 does not
> detect the fact that 1MB of onboard RAM is being
> wasted, and use lilo or
> bypass config.sys with F5 and avoid Win98 which
> won't boot without
> himem.sys. If you use lilo and 2.4.31 all these
> problems should go away.
> (Except for the poor quality video and sound - use
> PCI cards instead).
>
> Ext2 linux still has the memory detection problem
> with 2.2 kernels but
> boots with himem.sys unlike ramdisk or loop BL. We
> are now using lilo
> boot floppy disks, with a menu, or you can choose
> between disks for BL3 or
> BL2 boot, at various framebuffer resolutions.
>
> Xvesa may also be affected by himem.sys on these
> computers, or maybe it is
> the PCI ATI video cards we put in.
>
> A generic (SiS) computer with i810 chip for onboard
> sound (SiS 7012 Audio
> Device) but not onboard video boots BL2 ramdisk with
> himem.sys, loadlin,
> and non-pentium 2.2.16 kernel. So do all our
> computers without onboard
> sound or video. How do I identify the onboard
> ethernet if it is newer
> than the SW71 'net' kernel?
>
> I would not purchase a computer with onboard i810
> video. It also only
> gives you 1MB video RAM in DOS (and probably with
> svgalib). Someone said
> X for i810 can be made to work with more video and
> there is an i810fb
> driver (it is not vesafb). i810 sound only works at
> 48KHz sampling
> rate which disables most sound programs and requires
> that mplayer convert
> 44K or 22K to 48K. But these are both 800MHz
> computers given to us free
> and compile kernels four times faster than 200MHz.
>
> Sindi
>
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  • Re: [BL] IBM-with-onboard-RAM boot problems, ramdisk and loop, Hermang Mansilla, 12/18/2006

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