Re: Re[2]: [Devil-Linux-discuss] SATA problem

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

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On Fri, April 7, 2006 03:15, Serge Leschinsky wrote:
> Dear Heiko,
>
>
> Thursday, April 6, 2006, 8:43:09 PM, you wrote:
>
>>> Heiko, what do you think about dynamical compiling busybox (anyway we
>>>  link it against glibc, not uclibc ) and adding modprobe from
>>> modutils package (or building modprobe statically )?
>
>> The problem is the size of the initrd, when we start using libraries it
>>  might get tight on 32 MB systems. Compiling modprobe statically might
>> help.
> I made /sbin/test in the initrd file system and copied there insmode and
> modprobe (symlink) from modutils package. I modified load_modules script
> from "/sbin/modprobe $MODULE" to "/sbin/temp/modprobe $MODULE" as well. It
> seems working correctly.

Cool.
So we have a workaround if BB doesn't work either in the new version.

>>> The option  "BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_INSMOD_KSYMOOPS_SYMBOLS" can
>>> affect too. I'm going to check how this option inclusion/exclusion
>>> affects modules loading.
>
>> There's also a newer version of busybox now. They contacted me just a
>> couple days ago and said the mount problem may be solved (major rewrite
>> of mount).  So we could try updating busybox first.
> Yes. I've seen it already. But modprobe doesn't work anyway (
> moreover it doesn't work at all in the clean 1.1.1 without
> busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch).

Where can I find this patch?

> bb-1.1.1 was build without any problem. No script modification is
> required. It looks like a good candidate for update.

Cool
We need to test the several boot options (CF card, USB, ISO, harddisk),
since the newer BB had issues with some of them.

- -- 

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

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