How to boot from disk?

[TrueDoom]

heya, i'm brand new to knoppix (about 2 hours new XD)

i have knopix installed on my laptop, now how do i change the boot sequence so that cd boots first? (i have a knoppix disk, a program, which needs to be booted from disk, but i cant figure out how to do it)

also if you could list it in a step by step, or picture guide that'd be great

its knopix 5.1 in case you need to know

thanks!

[jayd512]

Hi, TrueDoom! Welcome to LinuxForums!

First thing you need to do is get into your BIOS during boot-up and change the order in which your PC looks for boot media. You should be able to get there by pressing F2 or F10 during start-up.

[TrueDoom]

hey....am i dont think it will work like that for me unfortunatley.

see i'm running knoppix on a pendrive (e.g its not an installed os, its just running off pendrive, in a new window, through windows xp.) as shown here (Run Knoppix from a USB device without rebooting | USB Pen Drive Linux)

but heres how it works, i have xp up and running, and on my usb drive, there is knoppix, with the added software that lets me boot koppix in a window. heres a screen shot:

first screen:


http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/283...tscreendt6.jpg


Screen when f2 or is pressed:


http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/3...3screenrm8.jpg


screen after full boot up:


http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/4...pixdeskwt9.jpg


also what i'm tryin to achieve, to boot from a knoppix boot disk, which i can open fine on the knoppix window, and view the files on the disk, but i need to boot from it to use it.

sorry if i'm not explaining myself well, i'm really new to this.

[jayd512]

Okay... I think I know what you're getting at. I've not actually tried it like that before, but you should be able to mount the cd-rom from within qemu to access the Knoppix CD. This link may be of some help.

I hope I'm understanding what you're after.

[TrueDoom]

hmm, but even mounting it, i wouldn't be able to use the disk, as the only way to work it is that it has to be booted from startup, rather than played like a mounted disk. I just need to know how to boot from disk at startup. As you have mentioned, f8 or f10, that would be normal if it was installed (and in which case i wouldn't be hear asking the knowledgeable people)

is there any command line i could type that would let me boot the cd?

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[jayd512]

Ya know, the only thing I can think of that might accomplish what you're going for is opening a second instance of qemu. And to be honest, I don't even know if you can do that

Sorry, man... I'm at a loss here. Sorry I couldn't come up with anything else.

[TrueDoom]

hmm its cool, dont worry about it

guess i'll just have to dual os on the pc
thanks for all your help