Hi Bob,

> So far BU3.0 is good on the WRAP box. To get it up I extracted the  3.0
> floppy image and copied everything to a dos formatted (and syslinuxed) CF
> card with a windoze box. Then I replaced the initrd.lrp with
> initrd_ide.lrp from the CD iso. Other steps included editing syslinux.cfg
> to use the serial console and the final step was extracting inittab from
> leaf.lrp, commenting out the usual gettys and uncommenting the serial
> getty and rebuilding leaf.lrp (using a linux box). It is bootable at that
> point and from there loading modules for the network devices and other
> necessary configuration can be done from the serial console on the WRAP
> box.
>
> It seemed like a lot of bother but educational at any rate. If there's an
>  easier way to get going on a WRAP box from scratch I'd like to hear
> about it.
>
Because all configuration and modules are saved in configdb and moddb now,
it is possible to make some standard configdb.lrp and moddb.lrp packages
for specific hardware. So in the future it should be possible to copy the
needed lrp packages together with customized
moddb/configdb/leaf.cfg/syslinux.cfg to the storage media and boot. Those
customized packages can be provided by users and placed somewhere on the
leaf site.

An other nice option of the new config system is that the names of the
configdb and moddb packages can be changed. So it should be possible to
have different configdb (and moddb) packages and a sylinux.cfg with menu
choice. So you can (dual) boot with different config options without
changing the standard packages.

> Today I noticed "wrap1c.o" in the root of the modules archive. What is
> that? Something needed or useful got BU on WRAP?
>
That module provides very basic control over the 3 led's and can read the
status of the button on a PcEngines WRAP platform.

Eric


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