Re: [Devil-linux-develop] [PATCH] linuxrc

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

> > I haven't looked at the patch yet, but I'm not sure about checking for
> > floppy first.  That would check floppy before the USB memory stick.
> > 
> > I think the USB flash drive should have priority over the floppy. 
> > Heiko, what's your opinion on that?
> 
> I think so, too. But that means that SCSI devices come before the floppy 
> comes before IDE devices.

And if save-config has the same search order, and if IDE drives come
before floppies, then save-config will be saving the config to IDE hard
drives if they exist.

I'm not sure that's a good idea either, is it???

> > Also, the search order for configs need to match the save-config script.
> > It's really confusing if your save goes to a different location than the
> > boot is using.  (believe me, I know that first hand! :)   So, if you
> > change the boot order, you also need to modify the save-config script.
> 
> Yes, save-config *and* the initrd need to be in sync.

 - BS