I managed to get the knoppix boot image by finding a cpu with a floppy using the new mkbootfloppy utility (Knoppix 2.4 uses 2 floppies, one for kernel, one for initrd) and `dd`ing the contents into an image, taking the image of the first, extending it to 2.88mb and then adding the initrd for one of the kernels to it (no room for both 2.4 and 2.6). Annoying that Klaus doesn’t include img files on the CD anymore. Would have saved me a lot of effort.
I am still running into a wall getting knoppix to boot through to all the hardware detection–it can’t find the underlying data on the NTFS partition and gives up dumping me at that really limited shell.
I’m trying to figure out which kernel parameter you got everything running with:
“bootfrom=” appears to require a running knoppix system before it will start booting from the bootfrom target (which can be an ISO on NTFS). I had this working but only if I do a boot from the SD, have my external non-booting CD drive with knoppix in it lined up. After getting onto the cd the booting knoppix realizes that I wanted to bootfrom the iso and it goes there and finishes up with that.
“hdfrom” might work, the manual didn’t mention the tight requirements of bootfrom I just mentioned. I didn’t have any luck though–even copying the KNOPPIX dir and file directly into the root directory of my C:.
Have my 2.88mb img boot files online at http://www.thadk.net/~thadk/knoppix
you need to boot them with
“knoppix/knoppix26 … initrd=minirt24.gz/minirt26.gz …”
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