ISO boot from FAT/NTFS/USB (GRUB.exe, grldr from boot.ini)

[ruymbeke]

Hello,
Please find below some updates to the minirt boot for Knoppix 6.7.1 (32 & 64):
http://s94002264.onlinehome.us/grub/k671/minirt_671d.gz (9.31MB)
and the latest Knoppix 6.7.1 minimal virtual machine
http://s94002264.onlinehome.us/grub/vmk671_744019.zip (48.1MB)
Best Regards,
Gilles

[ruymbeke]

Hello,
Please find below the minirt boot for Knoppix 7.0.4 (32 & 64):
http://s94002264.onlinehome.us/grub/k704/minirt_704.gz (10.4MB)
and the Knoppix 7.0.4 minimal virtual machine with the latest tools (WS 9.0.0)
http://s94002264.onlinehome.us/grub/vmk704_802388.zip (43.7MB)
Best Regards,
Gilles

[ruymbeke]

Hello,
http://s94002264.onlinehome.us/grub/vmk704_894247.zip (43.9MB)
Best Regards,
Gilles

[ruymbeke]

Hello,
Please find below the Knoppix 7.0.5 minirt for nfs, samba and iso boots (32 & 64):
http://s94002264.onlinehome.us/grub/k705/minirt_705.gz (10.5MB)
and the Knoppix 7.0.5 minimal virtual machine with the latest tools (WS 9.0.1):
http://s94002264.onlinehome.us/grub/vmk705_894247.zip (45.4MB)
Please provide some feedback. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !
Gilles

PS: Edited to correct the links (for some reason this forum does not cut and paste links properly...)

[Blacksimon]

Incorrect link ? it's point to minirt_k704.gz

[Blacksimon]

downloaded manually copying http://s94002264.onlinehome.us/grub/k705/minirt_705.gz in a new empty browser tab. But archive format is not recognized!

[ruymbeke]

Hello Blacksimon,
The archive is a gzipped cpio format and is typically used for Linux ramdisk boot images.
To read it's content you may try the following commands: gunzip minirt_705.gz; cpio -ivu --no-absolute-filenames < minirt_705
Thank you very much for your feedback and help in providing the correct link. It is now also updated in my original post.
For some reason the cut and paste of previous posts does not always work as expected, especially with links content.
Best Regards,
Gilles

[Blacksimon]

Thank you, all works fine.

[ruymbeke]

Hello,
I finally got the 3D support working with Knoppix 7.0.5 in a VMware virtual machine guest
and the VMWare tools. Please find below the link to the vm data zipped:
http://s94002264.onlinehome.us/grub/..._894247_3d.zip (149 MB)
It is actually quite nice to see a video playing on the compiz cube rotating smoothly and
live with the mouse without taking too much processing power when inside a VM guest.
Please provide some feedback. Happy New Year 2013 !
Gilles

PS: I used the following script to make it work:
http://s94002264.onlinehome.us/grub/...uild_3d.sh.txt

[Capricorny]

Just want to report that the 7.0.5 modified minirt works very well for me with an ISO remastering of Knoppix 7.0.5 and Workstation 8.0.5. (While the stock minirt.gz does not work.) I just threw the modified minirt into the boot/isolinux directory, made an alternative for booting with that in isolinux.cfg, and created the ISO. Started Workstation 8 on that, set up and formatted virtual disk as FAT32, and used the flash install. I'll write this up more completely in a separate thread.

Thanks again, Gilles!