Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] SATA CDROM boot problem?

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

How about going with a workaround if everything else fails?

Can you install a plain old IDE-CDROM in the box ?

 

Some day one of us will own a SATA CDROM too, then we can test it.

 

Heiko

 

From: dev...@li...
[mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf Of John
Bridleman
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 3:17 PM
To: di...@fo...; dev...@li...
Subject: Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] SATA CDROM boot problem?

 

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Dick Middleton <di...@fo...> wrote:

Is it that there are 2 problems here?  You have a problem finding a driver
for
your CDROM?   You're stuck in a logical loop because you don't have a config
file?

There are a few funnies with the start-up script when there is no config
file.
I've pointed out a few in the past but they're not showstoppers and there's
more
interesting things to work on.

The best plan is to put a config file on the USB stick before you start.  If
you
don't want to do that you have to tell DL where you want to put your config
file
otherwise you get into the loop.  echo device > /shm/DL_DEVICE or
save-config -d
device


I did try that although it was an older (1.2) config file. It says:
Pre-UnionFS config file found 
loading configuration
Searching for Devil-Linux CD-ROM
Search list:
  checking /dev/sda1 ... wrong media
!!! Devil-Linux CD-ROM not found .....

> A friend mentioned it might be a "DL doesn't like to be booted from a

> sata cdrom drive problem".

DL uses a recent kernel; if there's a driver for your drive it will use it.
Otherwise you're stuffed!


I'm beginning to feel that way! 8-)

If you're using IDE the device will be /dev/hd* or /dev/scd* - I don't know
what
it will be with SATA - probably /dev/scd*.  dmesg will tell you what's
happening.


Scrolls by so fast ....
 

To duck the problem is it possible you could use a USB stick for the ISO
image?
 It's only about 256MB so it's not such a big deal these days.  Personally I
use a USB stick with one partition for the ISO and another (ext3) for the
config
files.  If you have enough RAM you can use "copy ISO to ram" which allows
you to
remove the USB stick once you've booted.


I've only got a small stick right now so I'm off to the store this weekend.
 

I was able to get ubuntu working on this box but I would really rather use
DL.