Network install (no cd)
Submitted by Alexander de Goeij on October 10, 2006 - 6:55am.
L.S.
Problem: Have laptop, Want LivePC BareMetal... but... No CD drive...
I would like to have networked install for the baremetal version, i've checked out the iso and with a bit of luck my current grub will boot the cd-kernel, but then where to get the files from?
When can i expect a netboot kernel available from moka5?
Thanks in advance
Alexander
SMP = Symmetric
Submitted by Kelvin on October 10, 2006 - 4:21pm.
SMP = Symmetric multiprocessing. That's the kernel for system that has multiple CPUs.
AHA!
Submitted by Alexander de Goeij on October 11, 2006 - 12:12am.
I see, makes sense :) Maybe a wiki should be started, to add to the supportbase?
Alexander
Network Boot not supported, we might consider it later
Submitted by Gerald Cheong on October 11, 2006 - 9:57am.
Hi Alexander,
The bare-metal version does not support network boot and we currently have no plan of doing so. Currently we are focusing a lot on improving the quality of the Windows version.
Therefore unfortunately we are unable to assist you in your adventure in making the bare-metal version bootable from the network. However, you are welcome to share the results of your adventure if you like :-)
In fact, if your terminal is diskless, it is unlikely that network boot would work because the bare metal version requires a /cache directory to put a local cache for LivePCs etc. Having such a directory on the network could significantly slow down all LivePC operations...
Thanks,
-Gerald
moka5 Team
Alexander, We have opened
Submitted by Kelvin on October 11, 2006 - 10:38am.
Alexander,
We have opened ticket #2601 to track your question on the bare metal version of our software. Someone will work with you on that issue shortly.
Thanks for trying out our software.
bootimage
While at it, can you tell me what the difference is between the kernel. kernel_options. and kernel_SMP. is? And the difference between miniroot and miniroot_SMP. (What does SMP stand for? I can't take it!)
:-)
Alexander
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Allright here are my efforts so far:
I've copied the entire VMR.0 folder to my harddisk root, this should be enough to install the system as the other files seem to be non-installer related.
Now in grub i can load the kernel file KERNEL and initrd MINIROOT.GZ.
If I load them without any parameters other than
vga=791 ramdisk_size=32768 root=/dev/rd/0 rw --
the Moko5 splash screen shows and crashes to a terminal showing a no LivePC's found message, simply saying 'hit enter after connection of livepc' so that's probably the actual OS.
If I load with parameters from the ISOLINUX.CFG file:
kernel /VMR.0/BOOT/KERNEL
APPEND vmr_uuid=3fa414cd-1657-4fa7-9eb7-c4e791bf94d3 version_dir=VMR.0 initrd=/VMR.0/BOOT/MINIROOT.GZ ramdisk_size=20000 elevator=anticipatory vga=791 splash=silent
The system boots without splashimage and crashes at creation of the ramdisk saying Cannot open root device "rd/0" or unknown-block(0,0), panic, bla bla
Adding root=/dev/rd/0 or replacing rd/0 with hd/0 has lead to no success.
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