Problems booting r2052 iso from hard drive

[desquinn at hush.com]

The computer giving me problems is a Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT.  
I've sent you a PM with an attached PDF of the manufacturer's 
specs.  However it's no longer in the stock configuration; it now 
has 32MB of memory, a 3 GB hard drive, and no floppy drive.

>Doesn't this computer have a floppy, a network card (the LiveCD 
never 
>attempts to autodetect ISA cards) or a serial port?

I do have a network card, but I wasn't sure I'd be able to 
configure things to accept an ftp connection.  I eventually 
realized that I have some remote storage where I can upload the 
files, so it's no longer a problem.  The PM I've sent you also 
contains the dmesg files from both LFS LiveCD 6.2-5 and Damn Small 
Linux (careful though because DSL seems to load things like usb 
support when this computer clearly doesn't support usb).

To my surprise, this computer apparently doesn't use PCI.  "lspci -
v", "lspci -vv", and "lspci -vvv" all exited quietly running 6.2-5, 
and all gave the following response when running DSL:

pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci
lspci: Cannot find any working access method.

>If you do not understand how to compile a kernel and what the 
"kernel 
>config" means, you should not use the LFS LiveCD.

As I mentionned in my first post, I haven't made it very far into 
the LFS book.  If you think I'm lacking knowledge I should have 
before I begin, then I'll do some reading on the subject.  The 
whole reason I'm trying to work through LFS is to learn what I 
don't know, and I'm happy to do so.

>I ask you to download 
>the 2.6.22.5 kernel, compile it so that it works on your computer, 
and 
>send the .config file produced by "make menuconfig" in the kernel 
tree.

Is it possible to do this from the 6.2-5 LFS LiveCD without 
building the entire toolchain in LFS chapter 5?

>Waiting for the specs. A screenshot of Windows device manager (if 
you 
>have Windows) will be helpful.

Sorry, there is no OS on it now, and since I use Smart Boot Manager 
to boot from CD, I can't allow anything to overwrite my MBR.

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