[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Booting LiveCD from lilo/scratchbox error

[From: Mattias Schlenker]

Wooky wrote:

>I set up MaemoLiveCD to boot up from lilo, since Schlenker keeps
>updating it ;) I saw no reason to burn a CD.
>  
>

That's wise...

>I had some trouble at first, since I was not familiar with Kanotix,
>but I have some experience with Kurumin - which to my best knowledge
>is the lost brazilian cousin of Kanotix :), the two distros look very
>similar. The Kanotix documentation and forum seem to be mainly in
>German and GRUB-centric, but I managed to boot it after a few tries.
>If someone wants to do it, here is my recipe:
>
>-mount ISO image via loopback and copy KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX file,
>boot/vmlinuz, and /boot/miniroot.gz. KNOPPIX file should reside in a
>root directory of some partition say hda9, under a dir named KNOPPIX
>as well; the other two files can be copied to a subdir of the /boot
>dir (here /boot/KNOPPIX) in your main Linux system.
>-edit lilo.conf and run lilo afterwards:
>image=/boot/KNOPPIX/vmlinuz
>        append="ramdisk=100000 init=/etc/init fromhd=/dev/hda9"
>        root=/dev/hda9
>        read-only
>        initrd=/boot/KNOPPIX/miniroot.gz
>        label="maemo"
>
>After that it boots just fine. I have yet to set up the keyboard to
>something other than German. :)
>
>Problem is, when I try to start maemo-gui under scratchbox, it fails
>miserably with complains that it is running under a read-only
>environment, and that there is not enough memory (I'll write down the
>errors soon). I have 512MB, minus ~100MB used in the ramdisk. Isn't
>that enough or am I missing something?
>

Just take a look at /boot/grub/menu.lst and you will find out, that the 
parameter "unionfs" is missing. Also "lang=pt" or "lang=us" may probably 
make sense.
 
Regards,
Mattias





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