David Kerr wrote: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Lonnie Abelbeck > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > On Sep 14, 2008, at 4:19 AM, Michael Keuter wrote: > > >> I'm just uploading some new images to my website. Some of these > >> are the > >> regular 'runnix' files where the tar ball contains the appropriate > >> astlinux-XXX.run, run.conf etc files and some are complete images > >> that > >> you can simply dd to a new CF. The complete images have a naming > >> convention of cf-0.6-XXXX-ARCH.img.gz > >> > >> Darrick > >> -- > > > > Hi Darrick, > > > > thanks for the new images. But in the new 1958-geni586-image the > > "/oldroot/cdrom/" directory is empty after reboot. That means you > > cannot update, whithout plugging the CF-card out. > > It also seems that the trunk-images (in my case 1907) has precedence > > over the 0.6 version. That could be a naming convention. You > > mentioned a "ver" file some time ago. How is the syntax for that? > > > > Michael > > Actually this is a new feature, Darrick added the polishing touches to > the initrd.img, which includes unmounting the FAT16 (vfat) runnix > partition after the 'run' file is loaded into memory. Cleaning up. > > I > > > Why is this beneficial? Seams to me to be making things more > confusing/harder? > > Also... I'm still waiting for someone to tell me how to increase the > size of the ramdisk (see my email to this list from yesterday). I've > googled to the cows come home and played with various menuconfig > settings, but cannot figure it out.
David, I was actually hoping that Philip would have had a chance to respond to that. It's statically set in target/initrd/initrd.mk, but there's a way to set it via shell variable (export BLA=foo in bash) but I don't recall the variable that he used. Right now there's not an easy way to make it auto detectable. I like the discussion generated about the 'cdrom' directory. The intention was for it to be unmounted after boot from the beginning, but we finally got around to fixing the bug that was preventing it from getting unmounted. You can mount this partition by simply doing this: mount -t vfat /dev/hdX1 /oldroot/cdrom I would be open to a few different options 1). Leaving it mounted, but mounted as read-only by default 2). Having a variable in 'runnix.conf' which could be set to leave the cdrom left mounted read-only 3). Any other suggestions. I just fixed the bug that was in the core logic that had existed in the initrd/linuxrc script. Kristian thought it would be cleaner to have it unmounted after boot, but perhaps it would be better to leave it visible or at least create an entry in the fstab so it could be remounted. I believe if you do 'findfs LABEL=RUNNIX' that you'd be given the correct partition to mount as /oldroot/cdrom. Darrick ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
