topic title: fromiso booting issues
Posts: 4
ggeorgan
Joined: 07 Jun 2011
#1
The instructions in
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url was:"http://antix.mepis.org/index.php?title=Installation_Tips"
linktext was:"Installation Tips Boot from iso on hard-disk"
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seem to be incomplete.
The user is supposed to create the directory/folder test and mount the AntiX.iso there. However, upon reboot, the test directory gets emptied, so the modified grub commands apparently cannot find the complete AntiX filesystem they are seeking.
Has anyone actually managed to boot fromiso following those instructions ?
Thank you.
Posts: 10
kingneutron
Joined: 02 Jul 2011
#2
--I was able to get antiX booting from HD ( since it wouldn't"find" the cd ) by using system rescue cd to create a fat32 700MB filesystem and recreating the directory structure on the CD...

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--To get antix to install, had to boot win98se boot floppy and fdisk+format 700MB C:
then boot sys rescue cd and move the resulting partition to far-right since it ended up in the MIDDLE
and then mount and FTP antiX/antiX file to it from another system for the liveCD to find it!
mepis/antiX livecd would NOT BOOT otherwise on thisbox no matter what boot options were tried.
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Disk /dev/sda: 20.0 GB, 20003880960 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38760 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000d37d6

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1         969      488344+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2             970        1357      195552   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3           37330       38760      721224    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda4   *        1358       37329    18129888   83  Linux
' mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/tmp -oro '
' ls -al /mnt/tmp '
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 11 15:53 antiX

' ls -al /mnt/tmp/antiX/ '
total 684940
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 701378560 May 1 16:10 antiX

--Additional note: kernel boot options: ' nosmp irqpoll '
ggeorgan wrote:The instructions in
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://antix.mepis.org/index.php?title=Installation_Tips"
linktext was:"Installation Tips Boot from iso on hard-disk"
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seem to be incomplete.
The user is supposed to create the directory/folder test and mount the AntiX.iso there. However, upon reboot, the test directory gets emptied, so the modified grub commands apparently cannot find the complete AntiX filesystem they are seeking.
Has anyone actually managed to boot fromiso following those instructions ?
Thank you.
Posts: 4
ggeorgan
Joined: 07 Jun 2011
#3
In my case, I managed to boot using the instructions for MEPIS
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url was:"http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php?title=Boot_from_ISO"
linktext was:"here"
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