Eric,
Well, you're two for two. :-) Let's see if you can answer question #3. I've got it booting nicely now, except that when it starts, it says:
Starting software watchdog... done. Starting caching dns forwarder: Bus error
I'm not using dns of any kind on this box, and I deleted reference to dns lrp's from the leaf.cfg file. Any idea why this is popping up?
--Xantius
Eric Spakman wrote:
Xantius,
It should be possible to put the renamed initrd_usb.lrp (to initrd.lrp) on a floppy together with syslinux, syslinux.cfg and leaf.cfg. Edit syslinux.cfg, define LEAFCFG to be your floppy and change PKGPATH in leaf.cfg to your USB device with all the other packages.
Eric
Yep, this looks like it was indeed the problem. When I edited it in vi, I saw periods at the end of each line. I deleted them and things seem to boot pretty well now. This is testing it with my nice desktop system. However, none of my micro-atx boxes allow boot from USB. Is there a way around this? Such as having a floppy load up the usb drivers and using it to boot?
--Xantius
Eric Spakman wrote:
Xantius,
I duplicated your setup and booted with a syst_size of 10M without problems. Looking at the error messages you see (not foundpkg/mnt/leaf.cfg: x: and not reading the system size) it looks like leaf.cfg is "corrupted" in some way. Did you use a "proper" editor, I mean one that doesn't add LF after every CR?
Eric
Gladly! Here are the output of those files.
leaf.cfg LRP="root config etc local modules iptables dhcpd shorwall ulogd sh-httpd weblet libm libsnmp netsnmpd libcrpto libz sshd ssh" PKGPATH="/dev/sda1:msdos" syst_size=10M log_size=2M
syslinux.cfg
display syslinux.dpy
timeout 0 default linux initrd=initrd.lrp init=/linuxrc rw root=/dev/ram0 LEAFCFG=/dev/sda1:msdos
I'm having the additional issue of noticing that my ramdisk is getting filled up to 100%. As you can see, I set syst_size to 10M but no matter what I put there or in syslinux, it always makes the ramdisk 4M.
--Xantius
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Livio Ravetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 16:02:31 +0100
could you show your syslinux.cfg and leaf.cfg please
Xantius wrote:
I'm trying to figure out how to get LEAF to work from a USB memory stick. So far I'm not having too much luck figuring it out. I finally figured out that I need to install syslinux on the drive. Then I copied the initrd_usb.lrp from CVS and renamed it and put it on. It loaded up and it seems to work fine, though it gives the following errors
: not foundpkg/mnt/leaf.cfg: 7: : not foundpkg/mnt/leaf.cfg: 10: : not foundpkg/mnt/leaf.cfg: 13: : not foundpkg/mnt/leaf.cfg: 20:
However, when I save the initrd.lrp it doesn't save the modules, it only saves a file that is about 4000 bytes instead of the 450000 bytes. Needless to say the modules aren't getting saved. I tried saving every module, but with no luck... Any ideas?
--Xantius
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