Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Boot bug on latest 1.1.

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Bruce Smith wrote:

>>>It booted up, ask me to copy a blank config to media (I said "y"), it
>>>booted, I setup the box, ran save-config, and rebooted.  It came back
>>>up, and I noticed that I didn't have a root password, which was set. I
>>>also noticed my network wasn't setup, and NONE of my changes were there.
>>>After repeating the process a couple times, I finally figured out that
>>>the boot process was creating and reading my config on a local hard
>>>drive (ext3 /dev/hda2), and save-config was saving to my USB stick on
>>>/dev/sda1.
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>I would say this is not a bug.
>>
>>The script checks the root directories of all "harddisks" and cdroms for 
>>etc.tar.bz2.
>>save-config is not yet modified to use the devfs, so the search doesn't 
>>include IDE "harddisks" yet.
>>
>>"harddisks" means any devices which are or emulate harddisks (usb 
>>sticks, cf cards)
>>    
>>
>
>Shouldn't it search USB (scsi) before IDE?
>  
>
Yeah why not.
You can change it if you want.

Heiko