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

[Emmanuel E. <ee...@fr...>]

hi,

Heiko Zuerker a =E9crit:
> Tim Tait wrote:
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>> Bruce Smith wrote:
>>
>>> I just downloaded devil-linux-1.1.1-2003-12-21-i586-SMP.tar.bz2 (sinc=
e 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 the=
re.
>>> After repeating the process a couple times, I finally figured out tha=
t
>>> 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
>>> =20
>>>
>> I confused, why doesn't it write back to the same place it found it on=
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>> boot? AIR, the location is saved into a environment variable. Can't=20
>> that be preserved somehow and used in save-config?
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> The reason is easy: initrd is already updated to use devfs and=20
> save-config is old (out-dated).
> I still have to copy the specific part over to the save-config script.
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> We could store the config location somewhere in the system and re-use i=
t=20
> for save-config, but we would loose the flexibility of switching config=
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> devices while the system is up.
> Any more thoughts/opinions about this ?

Yes, add a parameter in /etc/sysconfig/config for the save-config device=20
to use ...
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> Heiko
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