Hi Timothy, hi all; Am Montag, 23. November 2015, 19:11:54 schrieb Timothy Wegner: > I have tested both the x86x64 and 486 versions of 5.2.2 that came out > yesterday on, respectively, Soekris net6501 (router with dmz) and net4801 > (tiny web server) boxen and this time both worked fine. (For 5.2.1 as we > now know, the 486 version had been compiled incorrectly and did not work on > the Soekris net4801 box.)
Great it works now. I have to admit that it was a bumpy road towards a stable 5.2 version. It also shows that LEAF needs more beta/rc testers. The bug that prevents dhcpcd to work in 5.2 has been intrduced in 5.2-rc2 released in August, a month before 5.2 has been released. The failing i486 kernel has been introduced in 5.2.1-beta1 in Oct, and while we've provided another rc candidate, it was detected in 5.2.1 in the meantime, about four weeks later. We know, it's a hassle to upgrade a working machine, so we like to find a solution, to get more users to testdrive the available beta/rc versions - otherwise it does make no sense to go through the release process for a beta/rc version. Whatever idea helping us to test versions before getting final is welcome, e.g. description of dual boot setups., descriptions how to restore to a working setup in case an update fails... is welcome. > I just noticed the new leaf.cfg variable at the bottom and now have it set: > > # SaveModules > # If set to true modules will be saved to moddb.lrp and it will be safe to > remov > # from your boot image to save space and speed further boots. > # If set to false modules won't be saved. Any modules needed on your > system, as > # or autodetected will be loaded automatically during boot from > modules.sqfs. > # Accepted values are: > # 1/true/yes/y > # respectively > # 0/false/no/n > UPDATE_MODDB=true Unfortunately the quote misses a few imprortant words. "If set to true modules will be saved to moddb.lrp and it will be safe to *remove modules.sqfs* from your boot image to save space...." The default is set to "true", so one can remove modules.sqfs. This has been set that way, to be backward compatible. But if one do have enough space on your permanent storage, and doesn't bother about a few extra seconds when booting the machine using modules.sqfs it will be very convenient to use that mechanism, and either set UPDATE_MODDB=true to UPDATE_MODDB=false or to never use m) Backup modules in lrcfg. Note: If you decide for speeding up the boot process, pls remove modules.sqfs. We are aware, that this change could be confusing, we consider it as a transitory solution to maintain backward compability. I don't bother moddb any longer in my setups and trust in hwdetect with modules.sqfs, other developers vary, until we'll provide a finalized, improved solution - which I consider a valid point as well. kp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for multiple OSs. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741551&iu=/4140 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
