Re: [Astlinux-devel] Not enough free space for new firmware on the RUNNIX partition.

[David K. <da...@ke...>]

Lonnie,
  "noram" is indeed set on my test system, but not on my production.  I am
not conscious of having set this and I have 2GB ram assigned.  But it is
possible that when I first installed I had much less and then increased it
later.  Where is that parameter set?

pbx-test ~ # cat /proc/cmdline
root=/dev/ram0 rw init=/linuxrc astlinux=genx86_64-vm
astimg=astlinux-1.4-bdb746.run astkd=auto asturw=auto astlive noram
libata.dma=3
pbx-test ~ #

Thanks
David

On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 7:04 PM Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lo...>
wrote:

> David,
>
> > What I am doing is "revert to previous" followed immediately by "upgrade
> with new" and a reboot.
>
> That is what I always do.
>
> If for some reason "noram" gets added to "cat /proc/cmdline" then that
> could explain what you are seeing.
>
> But usually "noram" is only for very tight RAM situations.  Unless you
> added it manually.
>
> Lonnie
>
>
>
> > On Jun 28, 2021, at 5:49 PM, David Kerr <da...@ke...> wrote:
> >
> > I don't know what's going on booting into shell... I have the version
> that requires typing "shell".  I just tried again and it failed so I'll
> need to investigate further.
> >
> > On the dirty disk problem, it occurred again. What I am doing is "revert
> to previous" followed immediately by "upgrade with new" and a reboot. After
> doing this three times I get the error. And there are three .REC files on
> the disk (after fsck repair).  All this because, btw, /usr/sbin is no
> longer in unionfs so I have to make tweaks to file I am editing offline,
> then make a new image, upgrade, etc.
> >
> > David
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 6:36 PM Lonnie Abelbeck <
> li...@lo...> wrote:
> > Hi David,
> >
> > Great you got things going again.
> >
> > > Worse, it looks like I cannot boot into "shell" from initial boot,
> whatever I select it just boots the main system.
> >
> > I just tested both a VMware Fusion VM and Proxmox VM and both were able
> to boot into "shell".  Both had the latest runnix-0.6.3, though one had the
> old syslinux 3.x and the other had the newer syslinux 6.x ... on one I
> typed "shell" the other I arrowed down to "shell".  Both worked for me.
> >
> > Being a VM gives you a lot of repair/recovery options.
> >
> > Lonnie
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Jun 28, 2021, at 3:44 PM, David Kerr <Da...@Ke...> wrote:
> > >
> > > Answering my own question... thanks to the magic of VMware I was able
> to attach my test vmdk image to another running astlinux VM and inside that
> run fsck.fat -a /dev/sdb1 (where it was attached) and that cleaned up the
> "dirty bit".  Then I could delete 150MB of "recovered" files and now I am
> back in business.
> > >
> > > David
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 4:08 PM David Kerr <da...@ke...> wrote:
> > > One of my test systems has got into a state where I cannot upgrade the
> firmware anymore... "Not enough free space for new firmware on the RUNNIX
> partition."  I have tried everything I can think of to fix it.  I'm having
> problems unmounting /dev/sda1 (device is busy) so have not been able to run
> fsck on it.  Worse, it looks like I cannot boot into "shell" from initial
> boot, whatever I select it just boots the main system.
> > >
> > > I may just have to rebuild my test system (not a huge issue, it is
> afterall just a VM test system), but any suggestions on how to fix this?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > David
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