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Yes this is issue is know : the script search for the cd IN the cdrom drive ! And it cant find it since there is no cd !
Here i dont know, but may be you could try to put the gparted livecd IN your drive, and maybe it could work like this. Well i know this is weird ....

All righty then Steve. I worked on this for about 4 hours tonight...

In gparted-livecd-0.3-1-pre3 there is going to be a new entry in the boot menu called "pick boot device". When you select that just enter the device were you put the contents of the iso. It must be in the / of the partition though.

steps:

1) copy the CONTENTS of the iso image to the / of a partiton. (or the liveusb when I get it done because that is just a zip file. Much easier.)
2) set-up grub/lilo to boot the proper initrd.gz.
3) select the proper device with the boot menu.
4) boot!

I'll have it posted on the 23rd. (tomorrow for me)

Maybe...

root=/dev/ram0 & init=linuxrc have to be on the kernel line as I shown in the first post (as far as grub is concerned) since at boot time the ram drive doesn't exist. I assume initrd.gz creates the structure for it.

My last suggestion didn't work either.

-Steve

This works on my system:

mkdir iso
mount -o loop gparted-livecd-0.3-1-pre3.iso iso
mkdir /mnt/windows
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
cp -a iso/* /mnt/windows

Add this to menu.lst:

title Gparted
root (hd0,0)
kernel /isolinux/linux root=/dev/ram0 initrd=initrd.gz init=/linuxrc ramdisk_size=65000 #make sure this is rapped with the line above.
initrd /isolinux/initrd.gz #this is on a new line.

or lilo.conf:

image= /mnt/windows/isolinux/linux
label = GParted
initrd = /mnt/windows/isolinux/initrd.gz
append = "init=/linuxrc"
root = /dev/ram0
ramdisk=65000

Be sure to run /sbin/lilo!

Reboot and then pick GParted from the grub/lilo boot menu. When the gparted boot menu starts pick "pick boot device" and enter hda1 in the inputbox. Then it goes back to the gparted boot menu again.  Pick "done" and the system boots.

It works and it's really easy to do...

*Use the bigger ram disk because in gparted-livecd-0.3-1-pre4 you can run from ram and the hdd at the same time. That means you can resize or clobber the partition you just booted from.

"In gparted-livecd-0.3-1-pre3 there is going to be a new entry in the boot menu called "pick boot device"."

Look a few posts up...:)

See if pre4 will download.

Hey Partrick,

Thanks for all the help with this so far. I'm still having some issues with the usb flash drive. When I go to select the boot device, I have to enter sdb and then go back in and enter sdb1. Then is starts to load. I select the language and keyboard layout. It returns the following error:

SQUASHFS error: zlib_fs returned unexpected result 0xffffffd
SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 409ee2, size 59ae

Is there something else I need to do that I'm missing?

I just tried it on my usb stick and it worked fine.

Hi again Patrick
I fixed my problem with not finding the Live CD by getting my nephew to hack the scripts in V0.2.5-5. Now it loads up properly & I don't need to change anything.

Thanks again for all the help
-Steve

What do you have in your menu.lst?

It should be this:

title GParted
root (hd1,0)
kernel /isolinux/linux root=/dev/ram0 initrd=initrd.gz init=/linuxrc ramdisk_size=65000
initrd /isolinux/initrd.gz

Boot back into it and select "pick boot device" and type sda1. Don't do the sda thing you think you have to do. Why were you doing that anyway?

Then drop into the shell and type:

ls /tmp

Whats in there?

"VFS: no partitions found" is what it said. It is supposed to say that because /dev/sda1 doesn't have any partitions. It is a single partition. Never mind, I'm going to work on hiding that right now. I'm really glad you brought this up because it could mislead people. Thanks!

sda1 is getting mounted. Good.

Did you ever try to boot just entering sda1? Don't enter sda.