Pinux Details

by xpar — last modified 2005-10-23 09:39 PM

2st Week : Welcome to the Linux World
- Linux and Gentoo introduced in the class

3rd Week : Kickoff for the XML Converter Project

Sep.8 ~ Sep.11
Gentoo Install & KDE setup on desktop using internal hard disk drive

Issue: None

Sep.12 ~ Sep.14
- Gentoo Install again on the External Hard Drive
  - Toshiba Satellite A55-S3063
  - LaCie Hard Drive/ interface USB 2.0 / 160G
  - ACPI BIOS 1.30
  - Issue : found that the BIOS did not support for the External Hard Drive Booting
Sep.15 ~ Sep.17
- Research for the BIOS and reinstalled it
- Call to Toshiba to ask whether or not it is supposed to provided enhanced BIOS which supports USB Boot
- Issue : Even the Latest Bios does not support the External Hard Booting
Sep.19
- Successful booting from External Hard Disk using a desktop computer which supports External Hard Drive booting BIOS
- decided project topic to Pinux
- Issue : risk of short term for the Pinux Project and GRUB problem after booting

Sep.20 ~ Sep 23
- Research for Booting without BIOS support
- Smart Boot Manager found
- Testing with desktops and notebook
- issue : even the utility can not find the external hard and booting unable
Sep.24 ~ Sep 25
- Configure and Recompile Gentoo Kernel for supporting USB and SCSI
- make menuconfig option s for 2.6 kernal

Oct.3 ~ Oct 5
- Test Indirect Booting using GRUB CD-ROM with a computer which supported BIOS option for USB Booting and computers which did not support USB Booting.
  - 1. step : change the BIOS Booting Prority and then reboot
  - 2. step : set GRUB's root device to the partition for indirect to load another boot loader using rootnotify command grub> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
  - 3. step : set the partion active grub> makeactive
  - 4. step : use chaninloader to load the Gentoo grub> chainloader +1
issue : can't find usb device when the computer does not support USB booting option with BIOS
Oct.6 ~ Oct 9
- Test with Several BIOSs (Phenix....) with GRUB CD