DSL Embedded :: mydsl problem with frugal



I just got back from my trip to Dominica yesterday and read all the new entries in this thread including the thread mentioned by adssse.  In that thread adssse mentioned that he added "dsl mydsl=hda2" to  the boot options line.  I tried that and it worked!  

After that I did several more installs trying different combinations of parameters.  My conclusion is that you must have "dsl mydsl=hda2" (without quotes) entered on the boot options line.  If that statement is not there, it seems to default to hda1.

The frugal install script seems to ignore the entry you put on the line that ask you if you want to specify a default restore partition.  I did a little further investigation and looked for lilo.conf files using midnight commander and found two instances ( /mnt/hda1/boot/lilo.conf and /cdrom/boot/lilo.conf ) where the append line contained the exact parameters that I entered during each install.  Even though I specified hda2 as mydsl partition and it was shown on the append line, it did not work right unless I entered the "dsl mydsl=hda2" on the boot options line.

At any rate, we now know a work around for the problem and it works great.  

Thanks adssse, ke4nt1, hawki, and all the rest of you who have contributed to this thread.  You are a great group.
Thats great to hear mgmont. Thanks for posting your investigations, it is interesting to hear that the prompt seems to be ignored. Congrats.
But the prompt does work. I just ran through a simple install with 3 partitions, hda1 for system, hda2 for mydsl & restore, hda3 for swap. No problems. The prompt may be redundant because you may use the first prompt and type everthing. However, being reminded with the second prompt is not the problem.
hmm... Seems like only some of us were having trouble with this I guess.
Reply to roberts.  You are obviously doing a frugal install to a hard drive since you have a swap partition in your install.  The problem that several of us are working on is a frugal install to a CF in a IDE adapter.  I don't know why they results would be different, but all I can tell you is what I have experienced.  

My setup is an old cyrix 233 processor with 256 meg of ram, an cf to ide adapter with a 256 meg cf, and a cdrom drive.  The cdrom and ide adapter are both on the same ide channel with the adapter set as master and the cdrom set as slave.  I use the cdrom to do the frugal install to the cf which is partitioned with 80 meg for hda1 and the balance as hda2.  I do the frugal install to hda1 and put home, opt, mydsl and restore on hda2

Could some of you more experienced people try and duplicate this setup and see if you have the same results that I do?

Although my setup is now working by using the method discovered by adssse, I would still like to find out why it will not work the way it is supposed to.

Thanks to everyone for all your help and interest.
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