My current question is about USB mass storage devices and linux.
Thanks everyone for your posts. I learned a bit from each of you. A
little clarification about what I have
TS7200 linux board
Redboot loads the kernel
then init starts up one of two root file systems
TS-linux, which uses busybox
or
Debian 2.4.?? on a 512 MB compact flash card
The replies from Gus and Neil were perfect for helping out with this board
I am currently booting into Debian, but the file system seems to not be
set up properly. First of all, the file system is expecting a HW clock
that doesn't exist, so it thinks the date is Dec 31, 1969 until I log on
and tell it otherwise. One consequence is that everything in /dev is
dated Dec 31, 1969 with only one or two exceptions. I think that I
really need to get my clock set up at startup, in other words the in
/etc/rcS.d . When I read Neil's post, I did find the files for all the
other things that I am not managing to use in /etc/rc2.d .
I decided that I would have more confidence changing things in the boot
process if I managed to back up my CF card first. I decided to tar the
root directory to a USB drive. I tried two different drives last night,
but could not find the file in the /dev directory so that I could mount
it. Each of these drives will successfully mount on my desktop machine
that runs Kubuntu. Is there something obvious that I am missing? What
directory would you look in to find a recently enumerated USB mass
storage device?
I think that I am going to have to work with technical support, to get
this working properly.
Cheers,
Marieke
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