AW: [SPBLinux-user] Mounting drives at boot

[Christian O. <os...@fr...>]

> I have a nicely running spblinux install, but I've hit a bit of a 
> snag. I have an addon with the following in the rc_addon.ini:
> 
> mkdir /zroot
> mount -t ext3 /dev/hda3 /zroot
> mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /zroot/boot
> 
> When the system boots, it clearly notes that it is mounting the 
> ext3 partition because I get a message stating the journalling 
> has been started, however by the end of the boot sequence the 
> zroot directory still exists but the partition has been 
> mysteriously unmounted without any apparent information.
if you boot with kernel parameter initsqf=1 (or =ram) the whole
filesystem below /usr gets compressed into one big squashfs
(as far as I remember at the moment, that is why rc_addon.ini
cannot directly mount drives; else anything mounted below /usr
would be put into the squashfs)
> 
> Can anyone recommend a way of getting drive mounts during boot to 
> "stick" or tell me why my mounting is being cancelled?
there is a simple workaround, which is used by ssh.bz2 to start sshd:
append your commands to /tmp/rc_init2 with
 echo 'your_command your_args ..' >>/tmp/rc_init2

(changegz your_path/init6.gz reveals the details: etc/rc_init;
spblinux parameter debug=yes keeps /etc/rc_init and /tmp/*)

Christian