User Feedback :: Boot with toram problem at 0.6.3

Hi cbagger01,
I added the on board memory upto 512M. The sympton is the same. Can you give me more suggestion? Thanks.

I'm not 100% sure on this but I believe there was a problem using toram when loading from anything other than a CD. The problem was that the entire contents of the source device (e.g., USB disk) was copied to ram rather than just the knoppix file. I don't know if later versions behave any different.

Hi catfish,
Thank for your advice. Do you think this problem may not be solved at this moment? I think the solution is very important. If we want to remote control the hardware, the response speed is important. I know the Live CD is not for this purpose. But the Damnsmall Linux is so small size. We need not to require a hard disk or CD drive. It is very suitable for the remote control. If it can solve the problem, it will become wide to use in the Internet control.

Well, since I run three machines off CF as hda1. One of the three with the toram option, I know that it works.

1. How did you "install" to your CF?
2. Do you still have the cdrom that was the source?
3. Did you md5sum the file before burning the cdrom?
4. What speed did you use to burn vs the burner's rated speed?
5. Have you booted from that cdrom with the toram option on another machine?

I have seen a bad md5sum files that seem to boot ok but when using toram the problems will appear. Same is true for a bad burn. Just booting may not show the problem. Using toram copies the whole thing so therefore must ensure you have a good copy.

One machine I have has 128MB memory with 256MB CF and work fine via toram so it is not a size issue.

I believe you have corruption in your image file.

Hi roberts,
Thank for your attention. Now I try to answer your installation question.

1. How did you "install" to your CF?
First I copied the following files into the CF and built the folder named of knoppix. The following is the files structure:
boot.img, f2, german.kbd, ldlinux.sys logo.16, miniroot.gz, boot.img, syslinux.cfg, vmlinuxz and the subdirectory knoppix. I modified the syslinux.cfg to 'boot: dsl 2 toram vga=norml'. And then I used the damnsmall linux version 0.6.3. The subdirectory contained the following files:
boot.cat, boot.img, knoppix, myfloppy.bat

2. Do you still have the cdrom that was the source?
Yes, I copied all the files from same cdrom.

3. Did you md5sum the file before burning the cdrom?
No. I just use the iso file to burn the CD disk.

4. What speed did you use to burn vs the burner's rated speed?
The CD Disk Writing speed is 4 and I used the burning speed is 2.

5. Have you booted from that cdrom with the toram option on another machine?
Yes. After I had burned the CD with the toram option, I booted it on another machine. Also I used the same machine to run the CF Card. I think the burned CD is O.K. but the CF cannot boot with toram. After I removed the toram parameter from the syslinux.cfg, the system was boot normal.

I used the DELL GX-200 with 384M RAM and the CF Card is 128M. I also incresed the on board memory to 512M. I hope the above answer can help you to solve my problem. Thanks.

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