Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] DL configuration

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

> >>> 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.
> > 
> > What about a SATA CDROM?  Would that be a good test?
> > 
> > I have one system with a SATA CD drive, that I could try to boot DL on.
>
> I checked busybox web page and found out that something was done for mdev. Maybe
>  the problem with hardware detection is really away. I'm going to try version
> 1.9.2 - current stable.

I haven't had a chance to try booting a DL CD on my SATA CD machine yet.
Hopefully I'll remember tonight, when I get home from work.

I'll let you know ...

> 12 February 2008 -- BusyBox 1.9.1 (stable)
> BusyBox 1.9.1. (svn, patches, how to add a patch)
> 
> This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to fsck, iproute, mdev, mkswap, msh,
> nameif, stty, test, zcip.

 - BS