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Topic: boot option home and opt on USb drive not working, pc boots into text mode

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roberts

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Posted: Jan. 30 2007,15:57

If you are trying to have persistent home and or opt on the same device partition as the knoppix boot image it will not work.

It has already been stated, twice, use separate areas.

If you are running embedded, i.e., Qemu or other virtual system on Windows, then I wouldn't know or really care much.

Reduce complexity.

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Posted: Jan. 31 2007,04:58

Hi Roberts,

sorry. maybe my posts are very confusing. i will try to put this as simply as i can.

my actual boot image is on the CF card which is frugal. the pc boots off this by default. this partition is hdb. on this i have the bootoption home="sda1". i want to persist only the "home" directory on a usb drive.

the sda1 is my usb drive. but the sda1 also happens to have a bootimage because it is has embedded dsl on it. this is what i use in the first place to boot the pc and add the bootoption on the actual frugal install (hdb1) on the CF card.

if i remove the bootimage on the usb drive it doesnt mount when booting the CF. isn't it necessary for the usb drive to automount when i want to put the "home" directory on it ?

thanks in advance.

mikshaw

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Posted: Jan. 31 2007,13:56

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isn't it necessary for the usb drive to automount when i want to put the "home" directory on it ?

The partition will be mounted automatically during the boot process if the partition is found and can be read. If it's not being mounted, it's possible that sda1 is not the appropriate device to use, or perhaps the system sees the device differently depending on what else is plugged in at the time of booting.

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humpty

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Posted: Jan. 31 2007,16:12

first of all, this is not really a HD install since you are using frugal.

to test if your usb stick is mountable or not, try
sudo su
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

if you get an error msg, then it's not recognised.

i suggest you boot off CD, use the install to usb-zip tool onto the CF, which creates 2 partitions (also add the boot options when prompted to either put persistent opt or home on the usb stick or maybe the 2nd partition of the CF.)

having 2 partitions means you also spare yourself the hassle of having to be root to write to the CF.

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Posted: Feb. 01 2007,15:08

Hi Guys,

thanks for your great advise. i tasted success after a long time. though it may be fundamental to have a frugal install with home and mydsl on some other medium like usb drive.
i had been struggling with it quite a bit.

i didnt realise that the drive would be mounted if it can read for example the mydsl directory. but i still have to seperate the mydsl onto another partition but for now i can carry on.

it may be of some interest to you that i am using a diskless pc called microclient jr from norhtec. so there is no harddisk , no cdrom drive. though i can put a harddisk in it i chose to have frugal on a CF card.

my next challenge is to get sound to work on this as this is a sis7019 processor.

Thanks a lot. dsl is very exciting

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