DSL is back to it's default install after bootForum: Other Help Topics Topic: DSL is back to it's default install after boot started by: icepick Posted by icepick on June 22 2007,14:31
Hi all,I am running DSL from a 1gb compact flash card. I managed to get it working without a problem, and I use loadlin to start DSL. However.. every time I start DSL it's like a brand new installation.. are the settings I did in the previous session (bookmarkt, X server setup etc) are all gone. Somehow it seems like DSL is running from RAM instead of from my compact flash card. How to fix this? I removed the 'TORAM' from my options.txt and made root=/dev/hda1 instead of root=/dev/ramdisk. Any idea's what I am doing wrong? Posted by roberts on June 22 2007,14:33
Read the Getting Started with DSL document that first appears on boot.
Posted by icepick on June 22 2007,14:50
Well, according to the wiki I should create a persistent home directory using these steps; mount /mnt/hda5 mkdir -p /mnt/hda5/home cp -a /home/dsl /mnt/hda5/home However.. if I try step one it says ' can't find /mnt/hda5 in /etc/fstab'.. so that doesnt help me much.. Posted by lucky13 on June 22 2007,15:16
You need to use a valid partition on and for your device. The wiki's mention of /mnt/hda5 would apply to a standard hard drive, not to a flash card which is going to be /mnt/sdXY where X is a-z according to assignment via hotplug and Y according to the number of partitions on the device. Are you running DSL solely off flash? Then you need an extra partition on it. Do you have a Linux partition on /dev/hda (your hard drive) which to mount and use for DSL? If not, that's the problem.
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on June 22 2007,15:24
To list possible partitions for use:try `ls /mnt/` and/or `fdisk -l` Posted by icepick on June 22 2007,16:28
Got it working.. partioning was indeed the problem.. thanks for all your help. |