Thorsten
At 22:21 01.11.2004 -0800, Thorsten von Eicken wrote: >I'd like to have multiple systems on my WRAP board running Bering uClibc and I must >be overlooking the obvious. I have a large CF (256MB) and would like to have 2 >complete system images so I can experiment with one and keep the other one as >"fail-safe" backup. > >First I tried to create multiple partitions to have one partition per system, but >syslinux doesn't seem to like partitions and will only boot from a whole-disk FAT >filesystem. Then I tried to stick all the .lrp into two subdirectories (one per >system) and with the use of PKGPATH in leaf.cfg that seems to work for the sake of >booting. But if I make changes to anything and use lrcfg to back LRPs up to the card >it wants to save them into the root directory of the disk. Where do I get the >boot-time value of PKGPATH from so I can modify lrcfg to save to the correct >directory? /proc/cmdline >Or am I missing an obvious alternative? OK you have multiple entries in the boot loader, so you should be able to select the system to boot. In my case, I have multiple instances of the firewall on a CF. I save them to a tar file on the second partition using a script I called `pickle`. Another script `pretend` overwrites the current configuration, then a reboot will load the actual configuration. Thus I don't need to be at the console to select a particular firewall image. basically the proceure is as follows. 1) set up your firewall instance 2) save it using lrcfg 3) make a copy using `pickle` 4) set up another firewall instance, /etc/hostname is used to distinguish them 5) save it using lrcfg 6) make one more copy on the 2nd partition using pickle now you can select any instance using `pretend` and a reboot will boot it. cheers Erich THINK P�ntenstrasse 39 8143 Stallikon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: BC9A 25BC 3954 3BC8 C024 8D8A B7D4 FF9D 05B8 0A16 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idU88&alloc_id065&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
