Art Mandler wrote: > Jim -- regarding booting off the CF card. Did you remember after upgrading > to replace the standard initrd.lrp with initrd_ide_cd.lrp? You must find > initrd_ide_cd.lrp, copy to the CF, and rename it initrd.lrp. Then reboot. > Should fix you up. The symptoms you're seeing are due to LEAF not finding > the CF correctly because it's not loading the modules in initrd_ide_cd.lrp. > > Art Mandler > > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:12:56 +0000 > From: Jim Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [leaf-user] Upgrading is not proof agianst this fool! > To: Bering Leaf <leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > I _had_ a working Bering Leaf UClibc 3.0 Beta 1 running off a CF card! > I then tried upgrading to beta 2 and now can't boot off the CF card and > have to use a floppy. > > I'm now trying to repair my CF setup, but run into a problem: > > I can boot from the floppy, which has an ide kernel and then mount the > cf card (/dev/hda1) to inspect the configuration. It all appears OK., > with the package and lrp paths correctly pointing to /dev/hda1. the cf > also has the same ide kernel as the floppy. If I boot from the card, it > boots as far as attempting to load the packages, but reports that the > PKGPATH and LRP paths aren't set, and panics. It appears that although > I'm using the same ide kernel that successfully detects my /dev/hda1 on > the floppy setup, the same kernel doesn't when installed on the cf. I > don't know how my 'upgrading' broke the setup and I'm not sure where to > look now. I _would_ like to get it sorted, as it was far more convenient > to boot off the CF card! > > Ideas, anyone, please? > > Jim Ford > Art, what can I say - you're a hero! It was as you said - I needed the correct initrd for the cf. The reason why the floppy saw /dev/hda1, but not the cf, was that I had the correct, renamed initrd on the floppy, but not on the cf.
I'm now off to try upgrading to beta3! Thanks again. Jim Ford ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
