Re: [Devil-linux-develop] New 1.3 testing release.

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

> >>> The first problem I ran into: when I boot the test release on a PC
> >>> without etc.tar.bz2 (with an existing CentOS installation on its hard
> >>> disk, but this should not come into play), the boot hangs seemingly
> >>> forever when trying to load the config from /dev/fd0 (I waited for
> >>> 10-15 minutes before
> >>> rebooting). It boots correctly if I insert a USB pen drive with an
> >>> etc.tar.bz2 file from a box running Devil 1.2.x.
> >>
> >> Did you have a floppy in the drive? If yes, was it formated?
> >>
> >
> > No. I am not even sure the floppy drive still works, all I know is
> > that it is in the box.
> 
> OK.
> Did anybody test the 1.3 boot with a floppy disk on real hardware (it
> works on my vmware server)?

I used the same ISO that I uploaded to the DL FTP site on two real PC's.
One was a 1Ghz box, the other is a 933Mhz box.  Both have floppy drives
and IDE hard drives.  They both also have a floppy drive, although I'm
using a USB flash drive to save my configs.  I didn't have any problems
creating a new config on my USB, and it loads fine after it was created.

I actually put the 933Mhz box running DL 1.3 into production last Friday
running a firewall and LAMP server at work.

For a limited time, I have still the 1Ghz box available for testing, if
you have anything specific you'd like me to try.

 - BS