persistence issuesForum: HD Install Topic: persistence issues started by: tikbalang Posted by tikbalang on Oct. 13 2008,07:09
even though i boot fromhd=hda7, hda7 is not actually mounted even after getting into dsl? is this normal?because of this, the following also fails: opt=hda7 home=hda7 mydsl=hda7 can it be a subdir inside /hda7/knoppix/ like so: opt=hda7/knoppix/opt home=hda7/knoppix/home mydsl=hda7/knoppix/mydsl - so there is less clutter? Posted by tikbalang on Oct. 13 2008,09:52
i meant: fromhd=/dev/hda7it boots ok but when i browse the hd i have to mount it first. if i run mydsl browser to update, i get this error:
Posted by WDef on Oct. 13 2008,10:45
Not mounting hda7 on boot: that is expected behavior.As i recall, the "fromhd" bootcode is not for booting up with persistent state. You need to search the forum/wiki for how to set up persistent home and opt directories. Ditto for mydsl. Not sure what's going on with your MyDSL browser. Posted by tikbalang on Oct. 13 2008,11:21
doesn't "frugal" require "fromhd=*"?
Posted by tikbalang on Oct. 13 2008,13:24
no, "frugal" does not need "fromhd=*". i've been to the wiki and searched past messages in this forum. basically, copy /ramdisk/opt /ramdisk/home to /hd??/* and use "opt=*" and "home=*" cheatcodes. fail. dsl is booting from hda7, and then mounts as rw /dev/hda7 in /cdrom <- is this what's causing the problem? i have removed the persistence cheatcodes for now but stil, mydsl cannot update its database. Posted by Juanito on Oct. 13 2008,14:44
If you create a folder /mnt/hda7/mydsl you will not need a boot code, dsl should find the folder on its own
Posted by tikbalang on Oct. 13 2008,15:15
folder exists, but not created by me, with one file "MyDSL" (26 bytes). i'll try to manually create.just to recap, i boot dsl from dos using linld.com. this is my .cl file (cheatcodes): ramdisk_size=100000 lang=us dsl mydsl=hda7 restore=hda7 acpi=off vga=791 frugal dma N.B.: "dsl mydsl=hda7" - because i read somewhere that this fails if "dsl" is missing before "mydsl". rebooting back to dsl now. Posted by tikbalang on Oct. 13 2008,15:37
still fail, with and without the leading "dsl".
Posted by roberts on Oct. 13 2008,16:01
You don't need that extra dsl you do need to have the correct permission on the mydsl folder. It should be dsl.staff
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 13 2008,18:21
My guess is that there could be problems due to the filesystem (i.e. fat*) not supporting *nix type permissions.
Posted by tikbalang on Oct. 14 2008,03:35
could it be because /dev/hda7 is mounted in /cdrom (although rw enabled)?there is an error after color starts but before startx: "chown could not find /mnt/hda7/home in */fstab or */mtab" it scrolled too fast and not in dmesg. restore=hda7 is working now. cannot use subfolders for this. mydsl is also working but not in persistent mode. it really could have been the gremlins. |