Re: [Mondo-devel] Problems with mindi created boot CD - Resolved

[Hugo R. <hu...@fi...>]

The '/archives' directory is created on all Mondo CD's but until recently it wasn't created on _Mindi_ CD's. Oops. Well, now Mindi creates it as well.

Mondo tries to mount each device, one by one. If it succeeds then it looks for '/archives' on the CD.

>>    mount: Mounting /dev/fd0 on /mnt/floppy failed: no such device or 
>>    address

I'll add "2> /dev/null" to the relevant 'mount' command. Mondo (well, technically, Mindi) is trying to fall back to floppies, can't find one, says, "Oops," and asks you what to do. Something like that.

1. Can I find a CD?
2. Oh dear. Well, I'll look for a floppy.
3. No floppy? Eek! Well, Mr/Ms User, you had better do something or I won't be able to boot.
4. Ooh, you gave me a floppy. Yummy. (And another..etc..)
5. OK, now maybe I can find the CD.
6. Woohoo! I've found the CD.

-Hugo



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--- dk...@ke... wrote:
>> --- Stewart Charnell <st...@ch...> wrote:
>> >I still get the two lines 'Unable to identify CD-ROM format' in 
>> >the bootup messages, is that because there is no data in the 
>> >archive directory on the CD-ROM (as someone else suggested)?
>> 
>> Mondo tries to mount hda, hdb, hdc, hdd, sda, sdb, ..., scd0, scd1, ..., cd1, 
>cd2, ...,
>rcd0, rcd1, ... until it finds a valid CD-ROM drive with a Mondo CD in it.
>> 
>
>How does Mondo recognize that a drive has a "Mondo CD in it"?
>
>An earlier writer found that Mondo was looking for an /archive directory in 
>order to recognize the disk as a Mondo disk. For whatever reason that /archive 
>directory wasn't getting created, thus a good Mondo disk wasn't being 
>recognized. (IIRC)
>
>The writer claimed adding the mkdir /archive to Mindi fixed the problem...
>
>Off to the mail list archives to see if I can find it...
>
>There we go... Message: 7267753 James Watson 12/07/2001 15:06:36
>
>SUBJECT: RE:  [Mondo-devel] Unable to identify CD-ROM
>     
>>    On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 03:25:47PM -0500, James Watson wrote:
>>    > When booting my Mindi CD, it seems to fail when trying to read the root
>>    > images on CD and reverts to floppies.  The last few lines of output look
>>    > like this:
>>
>>    > Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
>>
>>    I found it.  The mondo startup routines were looking for an "/archive"
>>    directory on the cd.  I modified the mindi script to "mkdir archive"
>>    just before mkisofs, and all is well.
>
>
>Please compare James output:
>
>>    ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv
>>    Loading your modules...Done
>>    Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
>>    mount: Mounting /dev/fd0 on /mnt/floppy failed: No such device or address
>
>With Stewart's output:
>
>>scsi0: SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
>>    Loading your modules...Done
>>    Unable to identify CD-ROM format
>>    Unable to identify CD-ROM format
>>    end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
>>    mount: Mounting /dev/fd0 on /mnt/floppy failed: no such device or 
>>    address
>
>Trying to help...
>
>-Donald
>
>
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