From: John B. <jbr...@gm...> - 2008-08-29 20:17:23
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Dick Middleton <di...@fo...> wrote: > Is it that there are 2 problems here? You have a problem finding a driver > for > your CDROM? You're stuck in a logical loop because you don't have a > config file? > > There are a few funnies with the start-up script when there is no config > file. > I've pointed out a few in the past but they're not showstoppers and there's > more > interesting things to work on. > > The best plan is to put a config file on the USB stick before you start. > If you > don't want to do that you have to tell DL where you want to put your config > file > otherwise you get into the loop. echo device > /shm/DL_DEVICE or > save-config -d > device I did try that although it was an older (1.2) config file. It says: Pre-UnionFS config file found loading configuration Searching for Devil-Linux CD-ROM Search list: checking /dev/sda1 ... wrong media !!! Devil-Linux CD-ROM not found ..... > A friend mentioned it might be a "DL doesn't like to be booted from a > > sata cdrom drive problem". > > DL uses a recent kernel; if there's a driver for your drive it will use it. > Otherwise you're stuffed! I'm beginning to feel that way! 8-) If you're using IDE the device will be /dev/hd* or /dev/scd* - I don't know > what > it will be with SATA - probably /dev/scd*. dmesg will tell you what's > happening. Scrolls by so fast .... > To duck the problem is it possible you could use a USB stick for the ISO > image? > It's only about 256MB so it's not such a big deal these days. Personally > I > use a USB stick with one partition for the ISO and another (ext3) for the > config > files. If you have enough RAM you can use "copy ISO to ram" which allows > you to > remove the USB stick once you've booted. I've only got a small stick right now so I'm off to the store this weekend. > I was able to get ubuntu working on this box but I would really rather use DL. -- John Bridleman |