--- Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Zac,
>Thanks. Shall I contact you offline? I tried PXE
> awhile ago but
> couldn't get it to work. I'm not sure the old Dell I
> used as a test
> box was truly PXE compliant so I was thinking I
> swhould check out what
> low cost, Linux-compati
On 6/10/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> --- Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Great call Zac! rootdelay=10 allowed me to boot from
> > the flash drive
>
> Excellent! That's good to know. If you need any help
> with the PXE I might be able to help with that too
> sinc
--- Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Great call Zac! rootdelay=10 allowed me to boot from
> the flash drive
Excellent! That's good to know. If you need any help
with the PXE I might be able to help with that too
since I use pxelinux to boot my diskless node.
Zac
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On 6/9/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You say the kernel messages indicate that the flash
> disk was recognized as sda so I'm not sure why it's
> not mounting for you. I looked through
> linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and saw a
> "rootdelay" parameter. With the modules I n
On 6/10/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 03:59:16 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> > On 6/10/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > CF cards aren't lockable, but some CD-IDE adaptors have a write
> > > protect jumper. Of course, you'll have problems sa
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 03:59:16 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 6/10/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > CF cards aren't lockable, but some CD-IDE adaptors have a write
> > protect jumper. Of course, you'll have problems saving any settings
> > with a write- protected /etc, so JFFS2 may
On 6/10/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 01:28:40 -0400, Colin wrote:
>
> > >Probably. You can save space with a compressed
> > >filesystem like jjfs or squashfs. You probably want
> > >to mount it read only since flash has limited write
> > >cycles.
>
> > Kind
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 01:28:40 -0400, Colin wrote:
> >Probably. You can save space with a compressed
> >filesystem like jjfs or squashfs. You probably want
> >to mount it read only since flash has limited write
> >cycles.
> Kind of off on a tangent, but there are other alternatives to a
> write-
Zac Medico wrote:
Probably. You can save space with a compressed
filesystem like jjfs or squashfs. You probably want
to mount it read only since flash has limited write
cycles.
You say the kernel messages indicate that the flash
disk was recognized as sda so I'm not sure why it's
not mounting
--- Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, it's the exact same kernel. All I've done is
> create a couple of
> partitions on the flash drive, make one a small
> bootable on the flash
> drive, copy over the hard drive's boot partition and
> then start
> editing the grub.conf file on the fl
On 6/9/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> I boot from a usb hard disk and I don't really have to
> do anything special. Well, actually I load modules
> from a genkernel initrd but that doesn't apply here
> since you built in the drivers.
>
> This is the same exact kernel th
--- Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>Is there anything specific that must be built
> into a kernel to boot
> from a USB flash drive?
>
>I'm fiddling with my first flash drive to see how
> well it might
> work for my Pundit-R MythTV frontend box. (to reduce
> noise - no h
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