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

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

On Mon, November 5, 2007 10:38, Bruce Smith wrote:
>>>>> 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.

Try using the floppy for the config media, just to confirm that it works.

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  Heiko Zuerker
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