http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/f/topic-3-17-11728-0.html

i was very pleased with the "usb boot floppy" image. maybe too pleased.

i downloaded the floppy image; rawrote it to floppy; plugged in new usb pendrive loaded with NON-bootable DSL files; booted from floppy and PRESTO — FIRST TIME — DSL came up. Nice. now i want more. much more.

my poor old computer can not boot directly from usb. it can boot directly from cd. and of course from floppy as mentioned.

floppy too slow. cd too inconvenient. "inconvenient" because you folks too productive — new dal extensions; new base version all the time. nuisance burning new cd every week. even more vexing: want to try different boot options - maybe scsi from friend; maybe this; maybe that; want to change boot config options every other day. want to stop burning cds.

my solution: make bootable cd but not DSL. CD boots using floppy emulation from Freedos floppy. CD has DOS script — autoexec — which executes GRUB FOR DOS. GRUB FOR DOS has memdrive feature which theoretically can load and start your usb-boot-bloppy image {{straight off the cd you see. faster than simple floppy boot. is this confusing??}} HOWEVER i want my GRUB boot options config file on back on a floppy so it can be changed easily. GRUB can do this. SYSLINUX cannot. GRUB command for "remote" boot options file on floppy is…

grub.exe  --config-file=(fd0)/grubcfg.ini

PROBLEM In the config file on the floppy you are supposed to write commands like

root (cd)
kernel (cd)/dsl/lunux24
blablabla.....................

GRUB then sez it cannot find file linux24! Even tho it just booted from the 7^&(((** CD! What to do?

i REFUSE to use your boot floppy as manufactured. too slow. worse, i want to load ONE floppy with ALL NECESSITIES — LIKE ALL SAVED Opera bookmarks. My weird CD has pause in script to prompt insertion of floppy for GRUB config file during boot… that works, ie GRUB finds config file & displays my GRUB boot options — like boot DSL in USB; boot RIP Linux on CD; GEEXBOX on CD; etc but none of the options work ]]Does GRUB support your CDROM drive?

Also, is the file located at

/dsl/linux24  (I assume that lunux24 was just a typo)

or is it at

/boot/isolinux/linux24

or somwhere else?