How to make cd to Boot external Firewire PCI HD with Linux installed
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...+grub+external
That Linux post is what I am trying to do. I want to find the manual or how to that will tell me how I can make a cd that I can boot the Linux install on a Firewire PCI EIDE HD that I asked about in another post: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...odules-639860/ Could someone tell me what link can tell how I can make the cd that will boot this when the BIOS does not see it but Linux can see it? I also need to add the module "sdb2" to see the Firewire and I did not figure out how to do that to the cd. Could you tell me where LQ has posts that answer this? I found the one above and it said that you can do it, but did not give a link for it. I am new to Linux and do not know the words well so it is hard to find things on google. Could you tell me what to search for or what link has it? Quote:
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You want to boot from a drive, visible to linux, but which has no bios support?
The standard approach is to use the smart boot manager (SBM). GIYF ;) If you want to use a linux live CD to do this, then you want to remaster the CD to include the option, say, as part of it's grub.conf/menu.lst file. How you do this depends on the specific CD - the distributors usually have notes about this under "remaster" or "creating custom". More robust would be to create a small linux /boot partition on the internal HDD... use this to dual-boot normally. |
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This looks like it can do it from the about page for Smart Boot Manager. I tried to RTFM for SBM. There was no M. Quote:
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I know what you mean - but I have never tried this, and have no firewire devices to test. So you'll just have to try it and see.
See the following... http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/li...-fireboot.html ... scroll down to where it discusses booting from firewire devices. |
Thank you for the comment. This LQ post was helpful.
I am not asking you to test this. I think that it could be tested with USB. I have not tried that. I am still trying to figure out the Firewire. Quote:
I am trying to figure out the rest of getting the kernel to boot. I do not know about the kernel boot process. I have some books to take a look at. This link was helpful: He has a script in there for "linuxrc". How can I modify that script to not use "devfsd"? I do not have the /bin/devfsd, the command "which devfsd" returns no such file. Is there a way to do this without using devfsd? Could I just put in the directory name for the Firewire PCI? Quote:
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Hmmm... you'd seem to be using udev... rats, I was hoping the ibm site would be more up to date.
My personal method is to install a small linux, say the /boot partition, to the internal drive - then dual boot. |
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