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

I tried it, and it works fine for me.

I started out with a blank floppy (no USB drive), and it found and wrote
the new config to floppy.  Then I rebooted, and it found and loaded the
config without a problem.

The thing I've found with floppies is they are very unreliable.  I
actually had to find a different machine because two of the three
machines I tried, the floppy drive didn't work.  And there is always the
high rate of media failure problems.  Perhaps the original poster is
having a related problem?

 - BS