On 6/10/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 01:28:40 -0400, Colin wrote:
Probably. You can save space with a compressed
filesystem like jjfs or squashfs. You probably want
to mount it read only since flash has limited write
cycles.
Kind of off on a
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 03:59:16 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
On 6/10/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
CF cards aren't lockable, but some CD-IDE adaptors have a write
protect jumper. Of course, you'll have problems saving any settings
with a write- protected /etc, so JFFS2 may be a
On 6/10/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 03:59:16 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
On 6/10/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
CF cards aren't lockable, but some CD-IDE adaptors have a write
protect jumper. Of course, you'll have problems saving any
On 6/9/05, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You say the kernel messages indicate that the flash
disk was recognized as sda so I'm not sure why it's
not mounting for you. I looked through
linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and saw a
rootdelay parameter. With the modules I need a
--- Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Great call Zac! rootdelay=10 allowed me to boot from
the flash drive
Excellent! That's good to know. If you need any help
with the PXE I might be able to help with that too
since I use pxelinux to boot my diskless node.
Zac
On 6/10/05, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Great call Zac! rootdelay=10 allowed me to boot from
the flash drive
Excellent! That's good to know. If you need any help
with the PXE I might be able to help with that too
since I use
--- Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Zac,
Thanks. Shall I contact you offline? I tried PXE
awhile ago but
couldn't get it to work. I'm not sure the old Dell I
used as a test
box was truly PXE compliant so I was thinking I
swhould check out what
low cost, Linux-compatible PXE
Hi,
Is there anything specific that must be built into a kernel to boot
from a USB flash drive?
I'm fiddling with my first flash drive to see how well it might
work for my Pundit-R MythTV frontend box. (to reduce noise - no hard
drive) I've gotten as far as grub starting, choosing the
--- Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Is there anything specific that must be built
into a kernel to boot
from a USB flash drive?
I'm fiddling with my first flash drive to see how
well it might
work for my Pundit-R MythTV frontend box. (to reduce
noise - no hard
On 6/9/05, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Mark,
I boot from a usb hard disk and I don't really have to
do anything special. Well, actually I load modules
from a genkernel initrd but that doesn't apply here
since you built in the drivers.
This is the same exact kernel that you
--- Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, it's the exact same kernel. All I've done is
create a couple of
partitions on the flash drive, make one a small
bootable on the flash
drive, copy over the hard drive's boot partition and
then start
editing the grub.conf file on the flash
Zac Medico wrote:
Probably. You can save space with a compressed
filesystem like jjfs or squashfs. You probably want
to mount it read only since flash has limited write
cycles.
You say the kernel messages indicate that the flash
disk was recognized as sda so I'm not sure why it's
not
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