User Feedback :: Boot with toram problem at 0.6.3



How much RAM do you have?

You need 128MB or more to boot dsl in 'toram' mode.

Does the kernel detect all of your memory properly?

You may need to pass a boot line command like:

dsl 2 toram mem=128M

to force the kernel to see the full 128 megs of memory, or mem=256M for 256 megs etc.

The uppercase "M" at the end is important.  If you type it in as lowercase like mem=128m  then it will not work properly.

/dev/cdrom2 is a "fake" cdrom that is created inside a RAM disk.   It is not a real cdrom drive.  Your real cdrom drive should be /dev/cdrom and it should be mounted at location /cdrom

Good Luck.
Hi cbagger01,
                  The problem is still the same. I have 256M memory. The system burns on the CD with the same configuration (dsl 2 toram). The problem is not exist. Why? Can you give me more suggustion to solve the problem? :)
So let me see if I understand your situation properly:

You have installed the DSL files to a compact flash card and you wish to boot with the "toram" option.

When you boot up from the CDROM with "toram", everything works OK, but when you try to boot up from the compact flash card, you cannot boot correctly with the "toram" option.

How do you use your compact flash card with your computer. Is this card configured to work like an IDE hard drive using a compact flash to IDE converter?  Or do you use a USB card reader with the compact flash card?

If the compact flash is configured like a hard drive, you may be able to boot with:

dsl 2 toram fromhd=NAME_OF_YOUR_COMPACT_FLASH_DRIVE
Hi cbagger01,
                  I tried to use 'dsl 2 fromhd=/dev/hda1' but the sympton is same. The card is configurated to work like an IDE hard drive using the compact flash to IDE converter. If I removed the 'toram' parameter, the compact flash card was boot up normally. Do you think 250M memory is enough or not? Thank for your help!
Assuming that you copied the contents of the CD disk over to your compact flash disk (IE: the KNOPPIX folder), then it should work as long as you have 128MB or more RAM.

This file copy is different from an hd install. "hd install" and "toram" are incompatible with each other.
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