Re: [Devil-linux-develop] DL1.3 - usb difficulties

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

Jean-Luc Parouty wrote:

> Heiko Zuerker wrote:
>
>> Jean-Luc Parouty wrote:
>>
>>> Heiko Zuerker wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jean-Luc Parouty wrote:
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>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> I try to compile cvs current 1.3, but the glibc compilation failed...
>>>>> ... it seems that gcc receive too unknown options :
>>>>>    -no-pie
>>>>>    -fno-stack-protector-all
>>>>> (...)
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> This was actually a bug in the build system.
>> Update from CVS and FTP and you should be OK.
>
>
> Ok, I rebuilt a full DL1.3, from scratch and the compilation was fine..
>
> But, I still have some little usb problems :
>
> - On vmware, the usb key is not found.
> I burned (a real) cd an test it and usb key was found, on /dev/sda1, 
> but on vmware the /dev/sda1 isn't in the list of search device...
> On 1.2.x, I never had any problem...
> vmware is more usefull than for simple tests:  it can give you a very 
> simple and usefull backup system... and for development, this is 
> really great...

This must be a problem with the kernel USB support.
There's also a performance issue with Kernel 2.6 and VMWare, so let's 
hope the kernel maintainers get that stuff fixed soon.

>
> - On the "real pc", the usb key is found and the configuration is 
> saved during the boot sequence, but the save-config, doesn't want to 
> mount the msdos filesystem of the key :
>
> Found configuration file location used by boot: /dev/sda1
> using device /dev/sda1
> mount unknown filesystem type 'msdfos'
> please insert Configuration Media in /dev/sda1
> (..)


I encountered the same problem when I did some testing.
We turned of msdos filesystem so the OS uses vfat per default. I guess 
we need to do some more testing/investigation here.
My time is very limited at the moment, it would be great if somebody 
else could own this task.

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org