can't find live filesystem using grldr (grub4dos)

2009-09-26 Thread Charles D. Russell
Using grub4dos with debian-live 5.0.2 downloaded from the web/ directory, boot fails with message "Unable to find a medium containing a live file system." However, I get a working command-line interface with prompt "initramfs". What is the search path for debian-live-502-i386-rescue.squashfs? I'v

Re: Booting Debian-live-501 over HTTP

2009-09-26 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/9/26 Pravin : > Hi Michal, > I got few quick questions about how networking. > > What I want to do is to check if dhcp networking is present or not. > In case, dhcp fails, I would fallback to "${STATICIP}" which comes > from "ip=" boot parameter. > > but I am having some problems in reliably c

Re: Booting Debian-live-501 over HTTP

2009-09-26 Thread Pravin
Hi, 2009/9/26 Michal Suchanek : > > debian-live should use the address specified with ip= and try dhcp otherwise. > > There are two reasons for this. Trying dhcp on a network that does not > have a dhcp server takes a long time because the dhcp client would go > through several increasing timeouts