I did the following to build my compact flash. I put syslinux on a Compact flash and copied the files to the CF from a windows box.
I the booted the 486 iso version the CF attached through a USB port mount -t vfat /dev/sdb /mnt1 to mount the compact flash ******* edited syslinux.cfg like this for a serial console serial 0 19200 DISPLAY syslinux.dpy TIMEOUT 0 APPEND CONSOLE=ttyS0,19200n8 APPEND reboot=bios VERBOSE=1 DEFAULT /syslinux/linux initrd=initrd.lrp rw root=/dev/ram0 LEAFCFG=/dev/sda1 ***** firewall# cd /tmp firewall# tar -zxvf /mnt1/etc.lrp unpacks etc.lrp in the /tmp directory firewall# edit etc/inittab Comment out the tty1 and tty2 lines like this. #tty1::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 #tty2::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2 Uncomment the ttyS0 line - leave the ttyS1 commented ttyS0::respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 19200 vt100 #ttyS1::respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 19200 vt100 ^q SAVE? y ***** firewall# tar cvf - * | gzip -9 > etc.lrp this rebuilds etc.lrp with the modified inittab file firewall# cp etc.lrp /mnt1/etc.lrp copies the changed etc.lrp to the compact flash. ***** when I boot the CF in the WRAP box the console works until it stops with LINUXRC: Looking fr leaf.cfg... LINUXRC: Generating default dirs... LINUXRC: Generating /tmp & /var/log partitions ... LINUXRC: PKGPATH is empty or unset.. Can not install packages. *** my leaf.cfg looks like this # List of packages to load LRP="root config etc modules iptables dhcpcd keyboard libm perl shorwall dnsmasq dropbear mhttpd webconf" # Device(s) to load from PKGPATH=/dev/sda1:vfat # RAM Disk partition sizes log_size=8M tmp_size=8M ***** Bering 3 had different initrd.lrp for different boot media. The boot section of initrd.lrp does not contain any files as far as I can see. Is this a problem or is it me doing something stupid. Victor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
