Can't boot into RTAI kernel

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14 Apr 2017 19:20 - 14 Apr 2017 19:24 #91373 by tommylight
Right click on iso and choose "write image to disc". That works always for CD, sometimes for USB, not always.
Leme attach the GRUB entry so you can boot the iso without install.
Place the iso on /boot/iso and also extract the content of the "live" folder from iso and copy it to /live on hdd.
You have to do both those steps for USB or HDD or it will complain about not finding something or another.
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menuentry "DebianDog-Jwm-3.4-9-rtai-686-pae-2" {
  	set isofile="/boot/iso/DebianDog-Jwm-3.4-9-rtai-686-pae-2.iso"
  	loopback loop $isofile
  	linux (loop)/live/vmlinuz1 boot=live findiso=$isofile 
  	initrd (loop)/live/initrd1.xz
}
Last edit: 14 Apr 2017 19:24 by tommylight. Reason: Added menuentry

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14 Apr 2017 19:58 - 14 Apr 2017 19:59 #91375 by Todd Zuercher
When I burned the iso to a cd this is all that showed up on it.
 Directory of E:\

09/15/2014  01:53 PM           983,040 DEBIANDO
09/15/2014  01:53 PM    <DIR>          ISOLINUX
01/04/2017  07:43 PM    <DIR>          LIVE
               1 File(s)        983,040 bytes

 Directory of E:\ISOLINUX

09/15/2014  01:53 PM    <DIR>          .
09/15/2014  01:53 PM    <DIR>          ..
09/15/2014  01:53 PM             2,048 BOOT.CAT
09/15/2014  01:53 PM                63 EXITHELP.CFG
09/15/2014  01:53 PM               842 F1.TXT
09/15/2014  01:53 PM               728 F10.TXT
09/15/2014  01:53 PM               424 F2.TXT
09/15/2014  01:53 PM               597 F3.TXT
09/15/2014  01:53 PM               357 F4.TXT
09/15/2014  01:53 PM               807 F5.TXT
09/15/2014  01:53 PM             1,169 F6.TXT
09/15/2014  01:53 PM               933 F7.TXT
09/15/2014  01:53 PM               181 F8.TXT
09/15/2014  01:53 PM               747 F9.TXT
09/15/2014  01:53 PM            24,576 ISOLINUX.BIN
09/15/2014  01:53 PM                68 ISOLINUX.CFG
09/15/2014  01:53 PM               284 LIVE.CFG
09/15/2014  01:53 PM               231 MENU.CFG
09/15/2014  01:53 PM               174 PROMPT.CFG
09/15/2014  01:53 PM             5,264 SPLASH.PNG
09/15/2014  01:53 PM               518 STDMENU.CFG
09/15/2014  01:53 PM           163,116 VESAMENU.C32
              20 File(s)        203,127 bytes

 Directory of E:\LIVE

01/04/2017  07:43 PM    <DIR>          .
09/15/2014  01:53 PM    <DIR>          ..
01/04/2017  07:42 PM       168,759,296 01_FILES.SQU
09/15/2014  01:53 PM    <DIR>          BASE
09/15/2014  01:53 PM         7,860,332 INITRD1.XZ
09/15/2014  01:53 PM    <DIR>          MODULES
09/15/2014  01:53 PM    <DIR>          OPTIONAL
09/15/2014  01:53 PM    <DIR>          ROOTCOPY
09/15/2014  01:53 PM         2,882,560 VMLINUZ1
09/15/2014  01:53 PM               437 WHEEZY_I.SGN
               4 File(s)    179,502,625 bytes

 Directory of E:\LIVE\BASE

09/15/2014  01:53 PM    <DIR>          .
01/04/2017  07:43 PM    <DIR>          ..
09/15/2014  01:53 PM           585,728 021_APPS.SQU
               1 File(s)        585,728 bytes

 Directory of E:\LIVE\MODULES

09/15/2014  01:53 PM    <DIR>          .
01/04/2017  07:43 PM    <DIR>          ..
               0 File(s)              0 bytes

 Directory of E:\LIVE\OPTIONAL

09/15/2014  01:53 PM    <DIR>          .
01/04/2017  07:43 PM    <DIR>          ..
               0 File(s)              0 bytes

 Directory of E:\LIVE\ROOTCOPY

09/15/2014  01:53 PM    <DIR>          .
01/04/2017  07:43 PM    <DIR>          ..
               0 File(s)              0 bytes

     Total Files Listed:
              26 File(s)    181,274,520 bytes
              18 Dir(s)               0 bytes free
Last edit: 14 Apr 2017 19:59 by Todd Zuercher.

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14 Apr 2017 20:21 #91376 by Todd Zuercher
I'm afraid I don't understand your instructions. I wanted to try out what I thought was a live CD in a VM. Is this not an ordinary live CD? Usually I can just boot a VM with VirtualBox directly from the iso.
That isn't working in this case. I tried burning the iso (from Windows I know) but it normally works fine for all other distros I've tried. And I get the same results.

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14 Apr 2017 21:18 - 14 Apr 2017 21:19 #91378 by tommylight
I do not think that is the right one, this is
DebianDog-Jwm-3.4-9-rtai-686-pae-2.iso
Anyway you look at it, it is a fiddly image as all PUP's are, and needs to have things in their own places to work. Not complaining, just they are small and light images for a reason, and they do serve a purpose, and they are good at doing so. I never tested on VM, i have plenty of USB drives so i test directly from them, always using this:
liveusb.info/dotclear/index.php?pages/install
well it looks like it is not working till 30.04.2017 oh c....
moving on
If you have a system with linux in it (and grub on MBR ), the above procedure works, and it is not explained elsewhere as i am not a member of those forums.
You are right, it should work like that and in some cases it does, but it has been a pain to make it work from a usb drive as i need to have other distros in it too.
The file listing looks Ok, aside the size of the files, it should be 244.8MB
We should start a new thread as this could be useful for other members.
Last edit: 14 Apr 2017 21:19 by tommylight.

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15 Apr 2017 02:54 #91390 by Todd Zuercher
I may yet start a new thread. but I won't have time to look into this more closely for a few days (or weeks). A colleague was able to get it to start using your instructions. Afraid I really don't understand why it has to be so hard to start it to boot. Is there a way to fix it so that the iso can just boot by it's self on an empty machine?
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15 Apr 2017 03:48 #91393 by rodw
Replied by rodw on topic Can't boot into RTAI kernel
I don't know if this is relevant but when I could not boot from an .ISO burnt to a USB stick, Google told me it was a known problem and to burn the .ISO on a windows machine using win32diskimager. It worked a treat every time and thats the way I burn all of my .ISO to USB now. You just have to rename the .ISO file to .IMG first so win32diskimager can see it.

Give it a go and see if it makes a difference. You can grab it here
sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
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15 Apr 2017 09:46 #91400 by tommylight
I will give it a try to explain why that type of iso images has such fuzzy issues:
It is easy to set it to boot the vmlinuz and initrd from any boot loader, but after that it needs the other data to boot, namely the squashfs or any other type of compresed image, but as the drives and CD can have diferent names on diferent computers, it needs to have that image at a certain location as it can not search for it, it has just some locations that it will search and give up.
I have spent plenty of time making it run on the same USB's with other distros, and i never use it, just like to have it for testing.
I have also the debian wheezy Linuxcnc iso set on several USB to boot so if anyone needs the menuentry for GRUB i will attach it.
Last night i did also the install menuentries for wheezy LCNC, but it fails when checking the CD. Needs more work.
This all points to : i do not like to have USB doing a single thing, it has to do more ( have 3 that i carry with me all the time). Profesional deformation from working as an IT admin for way to long. :)

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