Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] DL configuration

[Serge L. <fi...@in...>]

Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> Quoting Serge Leschinsky <fi...@in...>:
> 
>> Bruce Smith wrote:
>>>>> Another advantage of doing this is the size of the config file saved to
>>>>> the floppy/usb would be a LOT smaller!
>>>> Disadvantage of that exists also. Our boot logic based on the config file
>>>> searching and parsing config files. If it was union/au fs based  
>>>> solution I'm not
>>>> sure we will able to keep the logic unchanged.
>>> Right, we would have to change the boot process to mount /etc from CDROM
>>> and then mount the unionfs on top of that and untar the changes there.
>> :-) Which comes first the chicken or the egg?
>> To be able to mount CDROM we have to find out the config file and  
>> load modules
>> from /etc/sysconfi/config:INITRD_MODULES ...
>>
>> Another way is to do something like I did in install-on-hdd, i.e. load all
>> modules, but include into initrd/ramfs only really necessary.
>>
>> Bruce, don't take me wrong, I like the idea. I only try to define  
>> the points we
>> should discuss and modify.
>>
> 
> Actually the 2.6 kernel is pretty good in detecting which modules to  
> load, so we may not need to worry about this anymore.
> 
Heiko, I'm afraid it's not so good as we expect. To check it you may want to
install DL on SATA HDD - most probably it will not boot (conf media not found,
DL cdrom not found). The problem is in busybox's mdev (I think so) that is why
Ubuntu Live-CD has original udev binaries linked against uclibc, not busybox.

But I agree  - it will be fixed sooner or later. The question is "when".


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Serge