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[HOWTO] Grub 1 Porteus (3.1)
Posted: 22 Oct 2014, 14:44
by Bogomips
The setup illustrated here uses
sda as
hd0, and for
/path/to/kernel (on sda1)
/por/3.1/.
sda1 is reiserfs partition. (For some reason Grub did not take kindly to ext2)
Bare Essentials Setup
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guest@porteus:~$ mkdir -p /mnt/sda1/por/3.1
guest@porteus:~$ mkdir z
guest@porteus:~$ sudo mount Porteus-KDE4-v3.1-rc1-i486.iso z -t iso9660 -o loop
mount: block device /home/guest/Porteus-KDE4-v3.1-rc1-i486.iso is write-protected, mounting read-only
guest@porteus:~$ ls z/boot/syslinux
chain.c32 initrd.xz isolinux.boot lilo.conf porteus.cfg syslinux.cfg vmlinuz
extlinux.conf isolinux.bin isolinux.cfg plpbt porteus.png vesamenu.c32
guest@porteus:~$ cp -a z/boot/syslinux/vmlinuz /mnt/sda1/por/3.1
guest@porteus:~$ cp -a z/boot/syslinux/initrd.xz /mnt/sda1/por/3.1
guest@porteus:~$ ls -lh /mnt/sda1/por/3.1
total 3.3M
-rw-r--r-- 1 guest guest 683K Oct 16 13:57 initrd.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 guest guest 2.7M Oct 13 01:53 vmlinuz
Set Up Porteus (Example shows KDE iso)
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guest@porteus:~$ tree z/porteus/
z/porteus/
├── base
│ ├── 000-kernel.xzm
│ ├── 001-core.xzm
│ ├── 002-xorg.xzm
│ ├── 003-kde.xzm
│ └── 04-firefox.xzm
├── make_iso.sh
├── modules
├── optional
├── porteus-v3.1-i486.sgn
└── rootcopy
Entry in
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title Porteus Live DVD Porteus-KDE4-v3.1-rc1-i486.iso
root (hd0,0)
kernel /por/3.1/vmlinuz copy2ram ramsize=30% noauto timezone=Europe/Paris volume=60%
initrd /por/3.1/initrd.xz
Replacing kernel parameters of example with parameters of one's own choice. (If no sudo, run as root)
Re: [HOWTO] Grub 1 Porteus (3.1)
Posted: 23 Oct 2014, 13:15
by francois
Hello bogomips. Thanks for this howto on grub legacy and porteus. How do you install grub legacy on your hdd or usb?
Re: [HOWTO] Grub 1 Porteus (3.1)
Posted: 23 Oct 2014, 19:14
by Bogomips
Hi francois, it's been quite a while since it was done. Think came from SUSE installation CD. All I can recall is, it has traveled from hdd on defunct computer via usb to present computer.
So, for quicker answer resort to
questioner, or to folks at PCLinuxOS, who have not seen reason to leave Grub Legacy for Grub 2.
Re: [HOWTO] Grub 1 Porteus (3.1)
Posted: 23 Oct 2014, 22:30
by Ed_P
francois wrote:How do you install grub legacy on your hdd or usb?
This tutorial help you?
http://www.porteus.org/tutorials/12-boo ... drive.html
Re: [HOWTO] Grub 1 Porteus (3.1)
Posted: 24 Oct 2014, 04:47
by francois
Its good to see that ahau had prepared a tutorial on installing grub 0.97 (synonym of grub legacy or bogomips grub1). Personally, as I find it simpler I would retain step 11 in this faq and install grub legacy with grubconfig which automates the installation of grub legacy, see:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... 7395#p7395