Noobe - how to run cd image from hd

**A. Jorge Garcia** · 04-26-2003, 12:23 AM

Once the KNOPPIX image is booting, its faster than the CD boot. Also, if you're using a boot floppy, loadlin is a lot faster to.

Works for me at least!

Regards,

**Ewen** · 04-26-2003, 07:08 AM

This post for A. Jorge Garcia or anyone who can offer a solution;

At last, after battling all day, I have managed to get Knoppix to run off the hardrive and it will run off any of these batch files:

loadlin.exe vmlinuz lang=e initrd=miniroot.gz load_ramdisk=1 init=/etc/init hdc=ide-scsi vga=791

or:

loadlin.exe vmlinuz lang=e initrd=miniroot.gz quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix

The problem being that the programme loads in German. Elsewhere in this thread someone had the same problem but no-one answered

Finally how can I get it to read my config files which are stored on another partition?

Can you help please?

**A. Jorge Garcia** · 04-26-2003, 01:37 PM

Did you use the file boot-en.img when extracting vmlinuz and miniroot.gz?

Regards,

**RockMumbles** · 04-26-2003, 03:01 PM

loadlin.exe vmlinuz lang=e initrd=miniroot.gz load_ramdisk=1 init=/etc/init hdc=ide-scsi vga=791

or:

loadlin.exe vmlinuz lang=e initrd=miniroot.gz quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix

if these are your batch files I believe the language entry should be: lang=en

HTH

rock

**bongski55** · 04-26-2003, 08:00 PM

Originally Posted by Ewen

This post for A. Jorge Garcia or anyone who can offer a solution;

At last, after battling all day, I have managed to get Knoppix to run off the hardrive and it will run off any of these batch files:

loadlin.exe vmlinuz lang=e initrd=miniroot.gz load_ramdisk=1 init=/etc/init hdc=ide-scsi vga=791

or:

loadlin.exe vmlinuz lang=e initrd=miniroot.gz quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix

The problem being that the programme loads in German. Elsewhere in this thread someone had the same problem but no-one answered

Finally how can I get it to read my config files which are stored on another partition?

Can you help please?

I also had this German GUI problem. Also I do not have boot-en.img because the ISO file I downloaded was EN.(-as in English version 3.2.)

My solution is to rearrange the batch file so that the lang=en or lang=us comes after init=/etc/init or
"loadlin.exe vmlinuz init=/etc/init lang=us vga=788 xmodule=fbdev initrd=miniroot.gz quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix"

Seems the order of the batch file is significant

note that I reduced the resolution to 800x600(vga=78

Hope this helps

**Ewen** · 04-27-2003, 12:53 AM

RockMumbles... what a stupid error on my part! "Bugger" as they say in Australia, I'm going back to the setup and try again.

Bongski55... I am going to try your .bat file as well

I'll post back with the results.

PS: Can anyone answer my question about getting the programme to read 'myconfig' files saved on a different partition?

Thanks to all for the replies.

**bongski55** · 04-27-2003, 03:45 AM

Originally Posted by Ewen

PS: Can anyone answer my question about getting the programme to read 'myconfig' files saved on a different partition?

I can access my files by clicking on the icons(shortcut) of the partitions on the desktop(hda0,hda1,hda2,hda3-I have 4 partitions). The contents are displayed by konqueror. Config files are opened by kwrite.

I am not sure what you really mean by "on a different partition".

**Ewen** · 04-27-2003, 04:50 AM

Bongski55 and RockMumbles... thanks for the batch files... they both work famously.

I am not sure what you really mean by "on a different partition".

Ok... my post was badly worded. I have on my system hda1, hdb1, hdb5, and hdb6.

When I make changes to the Knoppix sytem I go to the Knoppix entry in the Start menu and I sellect Configure/Save Configuration. This gives me the options of what I want saved and the nect requester gives me 'where' I want to save it.

I always save to 'hdb6'. When I start Knoppix from the CD at the boot prompt I type 'knoppix myconfig=scan' and when it boots it finds all the settings and I'm ready to go.

I now have Knoppix saved to my HD and by using the knoppix.bat file (also gleaned from this site) I would like to be able to access the same configuration so that when I boot into the HD version everything will be as I set it up in the saved configuration.

**bongski55** · 04-27-2003, 08:13 AM

I think what you want is to be able to display the boot prompt. Perhaps a modified batch file can do this.Have not tried this and I am not sure it would work because of the loadlin.exe. I think loadlin is programmed to go through the boot process without going thru the boot prompt?

Any comments?