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    Usb boot knoppix

    Hello!!!
    I'm trying to boot 2 live distribution backtrack 3 e knoppix 5.1.1 on a usb drive...
    I made the first partition for boot loader grub that point to 2 other partition where are the 2 live...
    I copied the knoppix's files by mounting the cd iso and copying the content on the pen drive...
    The problem is what knoppix after loading the kernel starts hardware detection and i receive an error...
    Accessing KNOPPIX cd at /dev/sda3...
    Found primary KNOPPIX compressed image at /cdrom/KNOPPIX./KNOPPIX/bin/ln: cannot remove '/sbin':read only file system
    /linuxrc: cannot create /etc/ld.so.cache: read only file system

    When knoppix have to detect the usb device these run from sda to sdz and i receive an error:

    Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry.
    Dropping you to a (very limited) shell.
    Press reset button to quit.

    This is the part of menu.lst of grub about knoppix:

    title Knoppix 5.1.1
    root (hd0,2)
    kernel /boot/isolinux/linux root=/dev/ram0 init=/etc/init lang=it apm=power-off vga=791 nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix ro quiet splash
    initrd /boot/isolinux/minirt.gz
    quiet

    I don't understand what's the error...
    I hope you can help me...
    Thank you!!!

  2. #2
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    On this forum there details for grub booting the .iso without having to unpack it. Try that. Other than that try putting the files in a directory closer to root. Eg. /linux

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    Hello!!!
    The solution is herea http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/USB_Based_FAQ
    Those are the grub's options menu.lst:
    Code:
    title           Knoppix
    kernel          /boot/isolinux/linux ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt.gz nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
    initrd          /boot/isolinux/minirt.gz
    boot
    Thank you!!!

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