Hi,

by default you can choose between USB keydisk and "third" hd partition.

So the easiest way to accomplish what you want to do: don't created
hda2, but hda3 :)

genkd /dev/hda3 and you are ready to go.

I did this with my installation and it works fine.

cheers, Ingmar

Lonnie Abelbeck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm doing something stupid, but I can't generate my keydisk as the  
> 'second' CF partition.
> 
> This is what I am doing on a net4801:
> 1) gzcat 0.4.3 on an 'erased' 512M Sandisk CF.
> 
> 2) fdisk /dev/hda; n; 2;<CR> ;<CR>;w
> 
> 3) edit /boot/grub/grub.conf to include
> title AstLinux (Boot from CF - Use second partition for KeyDisk)
>          root (hd0,0)
>          kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda1 console=ttyS0,19200n8  
> astlinux=net4801 astkd=/dev/hda2 ide=nodma
>          savedefault
> 
> 4) reboot
> 
> So far, so good.  This is where I get confused... without using genkd...
> 
> Magically, /dev/hda2 has a file system and is mounted and has  
> symbolic links pointing to themselves...
> 
> What did I do wrong?
> 
> Lonnie
> 
> pbx kd # pwd
> /mnt/kd
> pbx kd # ls -l
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         8192 Aug 24 14:53 astdb
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Aug 24 14:29 asterisk -> / 
> mnt/kd/asterisk
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           15 Aug 24 14:29 cdr-csv -> / 
> mnt/kd/cdr-csv
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Aug 24 14:29 crontabs -> / 
> mnt/kd/crontabs
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Aug 24 14:29 dnsmasq.leases
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Aug 24 14:29 home
> drwx------    2 root     root        12288 Aug 24 14:29 lost+found
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Aug 24 14:29 monitor
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Aug 24 14:29 ssh
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Aug 24 14:29 tftpboot -> / 
> mnt/kd/tftpboot
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           17 Aug 24 14:29 voicemail -> / 
> mnt/kd/voicemail
> 
> pbx kd # mount
> /dev/root on / type ext2 (ro,nogrpid)
> none on /proc type proc (rw)
> none on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
> none on /var type tmpfs (rw)
> none on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)
> none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
> none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
> /dev/hda2 on /mnt/kd type ext2 (rw,noatime,nogrpid)
> none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
> 
> pbx kd # df
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1                47305     40999      6306  87% /
> none                       200         0       200   0% /dev
> none                      5000       108      4892   2% /var
> none                     10000       492      9508   5% /tmp
> /dev/hda2                60997        30     57817   0% /mnt/kd
> 
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