Linux on Life drive for dummies
Submitted by Revanu on 26 February, 2008 - 04:16.
Hello i have visited this website many times over the past year all in hopes of putting linux on my lifedrive. I am pretty nervous and I was wondering if anybody who has put linux on their LD could help me do the same thing but with instructions that are so simple a 2 year old could follow them.
Is too hard download this
Is too hard download this http://releases.hackndev.com/TP2.tar.bz2 (at the main hackndev page), unpack it and read README?
HOWTO:
1) copy cocoboot.prc to /harddrive/Applications/
2) copy following files:
cocoboot.conf
linux.boot.cfg
rootfs.ext2
swap
zImage
to /harddrive/
3) run cocoboot, tap BOOT
What is easier??
I got to the boot screen for
I got to the boot screen for linux but it said something was missing and it just froze.
So you should read what is
So you should read what is missing and provide it ;-)
Its just not that well
Its just not that well developed yet. Linux on lifedrive is a nice proof of concept, but just not that usable. Is anyone using LOL as a daily driver?
I always get the same error
I always get the same error anyway i try to run this...
Mounting LifeDrive data partition...
attempting to mount /dev/loop1: mounted on /media/hdd.
Sourcing linux.boot.cfg: not found
post_module scip no found.
no swap specified.
mounting rootfs: not a file or block on device.
/media/mmc1/rootfs.ext2
is: /media/hdd/[].ext2: no such file or directory
failed!
could not mount root fs: init failed!
please, reset, check your configureation and retry.
(A ton of then also before this, also [] represents a solid white box)
i ha all files on the sd card and the lifedrive and ive tryed runing cocoboot from the sd card and installed in to the lifedrive and run it from there and always get the same error.