A thought just occurred to me. The BOOT_SPECS file in the CD looks for BOOT_DISKID='0xf95ae985', which can confirm is correct:BarryK wrote:The CD boots up and runs in ram, there should not be any error about missing boot drive.belham2 wrote:Hi Barry & everyone,
Thanks, Barry, for this latest release. Made the mistake of burning the ISO immediately after download, and then wondering why it wouldn't boot on any machine of mine (laptop and/or desktop, kept throwing "Finding Drives....Creating compressed zram.....sda sr0 written 20 times)...then..ERROR:Boot drive not found...Have now dropped into a shell in the initramfs." Then it hit me, I needed to cpio the initrd, fix the boot_specs and then all was fine booting up the ISO. Thought maybe the ISO got past this BOOT_SPEC messing around and/or having the restriction of having to be in a booted Easy install to manipulate it. I think a lot of other who run "frugal" are going to fall victim to this, and then, once again, turn away because of the restrictions (not me, I don't mind it, but others will...).
In other words, you downloaded the iso, burnt it to CD, booted, and it should work. It defaults to looking for /dev/sr* with iso9660 filesystem and that is the boot drive.
You had me worried for a moment there. Just checked on the Compaq Presario, booted the CD, it found sr0 as the boot-drive and zram0 as working-partition.
It is a bit slow at first bootup, as copies easy.sfs off the CD to zram, but gets to desktop OK. Reminds me just how incredibly slow data transfer is from CDs.
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# fdisk -l /dev/sr0
Disk /dev/sr0: 425.3 MiB, 445952000 bytes, 217750 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 2048 = 2048 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 2048 bytes / 2048 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 2048 bytes / 2048 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xf95ae985
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sr0p1 * 0 870399 870400 1.7G 0 Empty
/dev/sr0p2 224 24799 24576 48M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)