Hello, Ok, looks like I have an answer after some playing with /linuxrc.
After turning on VERBOSE to see what is happening, this is where in the script appears to fail: # Query /proc/cmdline line for a 'boot' option. # This will solve the chicken and egg problem of specing boot devices # not in root.mount. Falls back to root.mount (and /proc/filesystems) # if boot= entry fails. IE boot=/dev/device[,filesystem] DEVICE="`sed 's/.*boot=\/dev\//\1/; s/ .*//1' /proc/cmdline`" FSTYPE="`echo $DEVICE | sed 's/.*://'`" DEVICE="`echo $DEVICE | sed 's/:.*//'`" DEVICE="$DEVICE `cat /var/lib/lrpkg/root.mount`" FSTYPE="$FSTYPE `cat /proc/filesystems | sed '/^nodev/d' | \ sed 's/^[ ]*//'`" # Works like mount -t auto and trys against the listed # filesystems. The reason is because it gets fd0 as DEVICE. I can only assume it is because of the delay in the scsi - usb storage initialisation, and when it goes looking for /dev/sda1 it doesn't find it and resorts back to the first entry in root.dev (I think that is what it's called) which is fd0, or that /dev has not finished populating before it is used. If I change the script as below it works fine: # Add delay to allow scsi / usb storage system to initialise echo "Sleeping for 2 seconds ......" sleep 2 # Query /proc/cmdline line for a 'boot' option. # This will solve the chicken and egg problem of specing boot devices # not in root.mount. Falls back to root.mount (and /proc/filesystems) # if boot= entry fails. IE boot=/dev/device[,filesystem] DEVICE="`sed 's/.*boot=\/dev\//\1/; s/ .*//1' /proc/cmdline`" FSTYPE="`echo $DEVICE | sed 's/.*://'`" DEVICE="`echo $DEVICE | sed 's/:.*//'`" DEVICE="$DEVICE `cat /var/lib/lrpkg/root.mount`" FSTYPE="$FSTYPE `cat /proc/filesystems | sed '/^nodev/d' | \ sed 's/^[ ]*//'`" # Works like mount -t auto and trys against the listed # filesystems. The delay needs to be after /dev is populated but before /dev/sda1 is attempted to be mounted, and 2 seconds appears to be heaps of time. When it I had it working by placing the floppy in the drive, the package backup listed initrd.lrp as backed up to fd0, with all other to sda1. Other hints / tips / pointers welcome. Mark. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
