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

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

Tim Tait wrote:

> Bruce Smith wrote:
>
>> I just downloaded devil-linux-1.1.1-2003-12-21-i586-SMP.tar.bz2 (since I
>> didn't have a recent compile of my own at work), and installed it on a
>> new box.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> - BS
>>  
>>
> I confused, why doesn't it write back to the same place it found it on 
> boot? AIR, the location is saved into a environment variable. Can't 
> that be preserved somehow and used in save-config?

The reason is easy: initrd is already updated to use devfs and 
save-config is old (out-dated).
I still have to copy the specific part over to the save-config script.

We could store the config location somewhere in the system and re-use it 
for save-config, but we would loose the flexibility of switching config 
devices while the system is up.
Any more thoughts/opinions about this ?

Heiko