Michael Tokarev wrote: > > Stephan Lagerholm wrote: > > > > Hi there, > > > > Im trying to install OWL on an old x86-P90 with 16 meg memory that are > > unable to boot via CD-rom. > > > > Questions: > > > > 1. I have bootable redhat on the hd, can that be used in some way to > > force the machine to boot from cdrom? > > If the kernel that is on your machine has CD-rom drivers compiled in > (default for RedHat), you should be able to do so -- maybe. Telling > lilo to pass appropriate `root=/dev/hdX' argument to the kernel so > it will try to mount your cdrom as root filesystem. Better yet is > to copy kernel from installation CD to your harddrive and tell lilo > to use it as well as your RedHat's kernel, and use it to boot off the > CD. Just add > > image=/boot/owl-boot-kernel append="root=/dev/your-cd-rom" > > to /etc/lilo.conf and call lilo to write new table. > > But I can't say what other parameters should be passed to boot kernel, > and where it can be found (I never installed Owl or any other linux > distro this way, all my installations was done manually copying appropriate > files to new HD and making it bootable). You also may try to expiriment with (lilo.conf) other=/dev/your-cd-rom label=cdrom and type `cdrom' at your LILO: prompt. If this will work, it is the most natural and simple method. But I don't know if this will work or not... ;) > > 3. The boot floppy don't give the cdrom as an option to boot from. Have I > > missed something here? A guess. Should another boot-image be inside cd-rom? I.e., when ISO gets created, something should be placed into it's boot area -- something that is sutable for booting off the cdrom, yes (El-torio boot ext)? So such an image should be available somewhere, and if one writes it to a floppy... But again, I'm not sure, just a guess. Regards, Michael.
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