Re: [Devil-linux-develop] usb boot

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> I still want to rework some of the code so it detects the device file
> better (right now it's detecting my SCSI HDD as a USB stick).

OK, I spent a lot of time looking into this.  I've been comparing /proc
files on a machine with a real SCSI hard drive, to /proc files on a
machine with only IDE hard drives (both with a USB memory stick).

Guess what - all the /proc files are IDENTICAL.   :-(

So, I started google'ing.  I started reading this thread on the kernel
mailing list talking about the same problem.  It seems like there is no
easy way to map SCSI storage devices to device files in the 2.4 kernel
(USB or otherwise).  It may be possible to do it in a C program (they
were talking about a bunch of system calls, but that was over my head).
The purpose of the thread was discussion of possible ways to improve
this in the 2.6 kernel.

So, I commented out the [broken] code to list USB-storage device files
in the install-on-usb script.  I figured no list of devices is better
than an potentially incorrect list.

 - BS