Stuart Winter wrote:
(.... this is taking a while....
minutes later and USB stick still blinking...
It didnt take this long to "fatload"....
DONE finally! - fatload was pretty instantaneous)
I don't know about that.
The only problems I have seen are with u-boot's USB support being hit and
miss -- sometimes it'd find the device, others not; but on both of my
SheevaPlugs with USB, they boot very quickly using ext2load.
I'd keep an eye on plugcomputer.org for Guruplug u-boot posts. I'm sure
you won't be the only person who's going to have a problem. As with the
Sheevaplug, someone hopefully will come up with a decent u-boot patch set
and produce a binary.
Well when I'm finished with the thing, I'll have a JFFS2 (or UBI) fs flashed and
I'll be loading from nand. But I wanted to let you know what I saw.
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Going multiuser...
Updating shared library links: /sbin/ldconfig &
cannot (un)set powersave mode
Apparently this is because of setterm:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/screen-blanking-out-582748/
Oh! I never thought about that. I thought it was a CPU setting thing. I wasnt
actually asking about that but the next thing....
udevd[976]: error binding control socket, seems udevd is already running
Triggering udev events: /sbin/udevadm trigger --type=failed
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1: /sbin/ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1: /sbin/route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 lo
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Is this because udev is already started in the initrd? (I am only guessing)
Yes it's started from initrd in order to populate /dev and pivot into
the OS and continue from there.
Before "/init" from the initrd exists, it tries to kill udevd so that the
copy on the OS can be loaded.
I haven't seen a case on my machines where this doesn't work.
If you comment out the "setterm" line in rc.M, I wonder if that fixes the
udev problem?
This probably wont concern me then as my goal is to boot directly to the root FS
without initrd with a custom kernel. But again. Just wanted to give you
feedback on what I saw with 13.1.
Thanks
John
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