DSL Embedded :: mydsl problem with frugal



So far no luck.  I have not had much time this week to work on the problem and probably will not next week either.  By the way the system that I am using is one that I salvaged out of an old Wave Wireless access point and contains a mother board model MB-58LMP and I am not sure who the manufacturer is.  It has a Cyrix 233 processor, 256 megs of ram, one IDE port, parralell port, two serial ports, built in sound, built in eithernet, PS2 KB and mouse ports, and two USB ports.  It is a little on the slow side, but a good machine to learn on.

If any one has further ideas for me to try, let me know.  I plan to get more serious about this problem in a couple of weeks when I get back in town.  

Thanks for your interest and replies.
Did you all format hda2 as an ext2 partition. If you do ext3 you'll have problems.

Code Sample
sudo mke2fs /dev/hda2


Chris
yes, both hda1 and hda2 are formated with ext2.  Also I have reinstalled with DSL 1.2 since my first post but still have the same results.  

Thinks for the suggestion anyway Chris.  It will probably be something dumb that I am doing or not doing.  Sometimes it takes someone to ask a basic question before it dawns on you what you are doing wrong.
hmm, this is a strange one. Where did you enter the mydsl boot code? Did you enter it on the boot code line and/or on both the boot code line AND the mydsl prompt? When you do a frugal install you have the option to enter boot codes but later on in the script you are prompted for the backup/restore partition and the mydsl partition.

I'm just trying to think of different things. Have you looked at my frugal howto doc in the /downloads/pdfdocs folder? Maybe there's something there you can see that's different from what you're doing.

Chris
I have tried it several different ways.  The first time I specified hda2 when frugal prompted for the mydsl location.  Next, I added mydsl=hda2 on the boot code line and ignored the prompt.  After that I tried it in both places.  Also I read somewhere that a frugal install inherits the boot settings that you add when booting the CD from which you install frugal.  I tried adding mydsl=hda2 when booting the CD and then installing frugal.  I always end up with the same results.  I am thinking that I might start over and try just making one partition on the cf and install mydsl on the root of hda1 and see what happens.
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