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 More options Apr 17 2012, 2:17 am
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From: no.top.p...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:17:49 +0000 (UTC)
Local: Tues, Apr 17 2012 2:17 am
Subject: Re (2): Can slakware 13 boot from a CF-partition?
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In article <slrnjoou3u.9n5....@charlotte.encs.concordia.ca>, Sylvain Robitaille <s...@alcor.concordia.ca> wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:27:17 +0000 (UTC), no.top.p...@gmail.com wrote:

> > So I'm suspecting that, unlike Etch, slak can't boot from
> > a CompactFlash. Eg. only 'later' are the SCSI drivers loaded?

> Booting is not distribution-specific.  If one can do it, they all
> can do it.  

By 'boot' I mean the total process from power-up till 'login'

> Slackware can boot from any device that the system will
> permit booting from, including USB disks, CF and SD cards, SSDs, etc.

The "system" being Slackware: that's my very question ??

> It looks to me, though, like you haven't created an initrd for your
> Slackware installation, thus it doesn't have access to the driver(s)
> it needs to see the CF disk.

That would have been my first guess too, thats's WHY I pasted
the <ls -l *linuz*  *init*> which you've snipped.

Also this kogi, running NOW on the PC shows `ls -l`:
4907792 2009-07-11 16:56 /boot/vmlinuz
2375866 2009-07-11 16:56 /boot/initrd.gz
whereas looking into my slak13 on this PC:
-> ls /mnt/slak/boot/*init*
/mnt/slak/boot/README.initrd

So on the PC, where slak13 DOES boot, there's ALSO
no initrd. I think I read that slak13's HUGE kernel doesn't
need an <initrd>

But I guess that vmlinuz-huge-smp-2.6.29.6-smp
lacks the SCSI driver for the CompactFlash.

OK, let me check the PC's slak:/etc/lilo.conf to if *initrd*
is perhaps not in /boot.
It has only "image=..", no <initrd>

Oh crap, so has PC's kogi:/etc/lilo.conf  !!
This is realy confusing: with PC & netbook;
kogi & slak; lilo & grub !!


 
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