Michael Keuter wrote: >> Michael Keuter wrote: >>>> Since upgrading to 0.6.2, partitioning my flash disk and running >>>> genunion I am now not only able to make ordinary configuration changes >>>> sticky but the root password too. >>>> >>>> The trouble is however that if your mobo only supports a single hard >>>> disk channel, having multiple partitions does not really help. If the rw >>>> partition wears out it might as well all be on the same partition >> >> anyway, as the whole flash module will need changing. >> > >> > You have still the possiblity to use an extra USB-Stick for the >> > Keydisk (genkd script). >> I was not aware that it was possible to make the root password sticky >> using genkd, perhaps I missed something. I understood this needed >> genunion. Genunion on a USB-stick was a non starter for me - the >> USB-stick could not be detected at boot-up. Possibly a timing issue. > > No that's the wrong way. Before running genunion > run genkd /dev/sdŠ (your USB-Stick). > Check with "fdisk -l". Reboot then. > Now run genunion and at the second question say "NO". Reboot again. > > http://www.astlinux.org/node/30 > Michael, thanks for your post. I did try the above, on more than one occasion and with two different platforms, but after booting no configuration was sticky. I had an error on bootup to do with detecting the USB Stick. This was using the 0.6.1 VIA image.
I then reverted to using a second on-board partition and got everything working nicely, except for concerns about extending the life of the disk. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
