Good morning guys, Well, as suspected I've tried duplicating the cards using DD and I'm having the aforementioned issues with the networking :-( I have also tried moving a hand built card from one board to another and get this exact same issue, something must be tying the configuration to the hardware?
When I place the duplicated card into the new system and boot with the board connected to the network then everything is fine, however, if I then boot the system without a network connection, then I am never again able to get it to boot _with_ a network connection, the system will boot but will not lease an IP address or anything like that. When watching the boot through a serial connection is displays the following error when attempting to start networking: Setting up networking.../etc/rcS.d/S39ifupdown: line 85: /etc/network/run/ifstate: Input/output error * Failure initializing /etc/network/run/ifstate failed! Configuring network interfaces...ifup: failed to open statefile /etc/network/run/ifstate: Input/output error failed. Any ideas what might be causing this? This is the same issue I've had in the past and I've never been able to solve it. Thanks, Robert -----Original Message----- From: Edwin Whitelaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 March 2008 01:41 To: Robert Rawlins Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] Duplicating CF I do use dd also but have found that doing the chroot customization of the source files (the extracted directory from the tar ball) and then adding/removing packages, changing config files, etc. works well because the standard voyage.update script then loads all my preferences on each new CF. If your CF cards are substantially different from each other system by system, I'd use the dd method. Edwin Robert Rawlins wrote: > > Hello Guys, > > At the moment with all the packages I install and changes I make to > the configuration of my systems the build time is quite lengthily from > start to finish. > > Is there any efficient and simple way to duplicate compact flash > cards? We're not talking massive numbers so I want to avoid doing it > professionally, just something I can do here with my card readers > would be good. I want to be able to create one finished card and then > make multiple versions of the same thing. > > I have done this a long while back but found that we has problems with > networking when placing cards in different boards, it seemed to get > confused. I forget which method I used. > > I'm using grub boot loader if that makes any difference. > > I look forward to getting your suggestions guys, > > Robert > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Voyage-linux mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux > -- <=+=+=+==+=+=+==+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=> Edwin Whitelaw, P.E. New River Valley Unwired, LLC 2200 Lonesome Dove Dr Christiansburg, VA 24073 540-239-0318 _______________________________________________ Voyage-linux mailing list [email protected] http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux
