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Posted: Nov. 14 2005,09:20 QUOTE

Hello all,

An update on my problem - in short, it's still here.

At length - I've upgraded to the 2.0rc2 version, doing the frugal install from /dev/hda6, as per my original method. However, nothing has changed from my earlier efforts.

This is my grub setting:

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kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=808 noacpi apm dma noscsi frugal home=hda5 opt=hda5 mydsl=hda1
initrd /boot/minirt24.gz


The following is the output from dmesg (yes, very long, I know - but perhaps it helps?):

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b-100  0x19991112 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=808 noacpi apm dma noscsi frugal home=hda5 opt=hda5
No local APIC present or hardware disabled
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 233.291 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 465.30 BogoMIPS
Memory: 60996k/65600k available (1386k kernel code, 4216k reserved, 567k data, 144k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
CPU:     After generic, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
ACPI: IRQ13 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: none
CPU:     After generic, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU0: Intel Mobile Pentium MMX stepping 01
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 159.61 usecs.
SMP motherboard not detected.
Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0)
All processors have done init_idle
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfc5f8, last bus=21
PCI: Using configuration type 1
   ACPI-0352: *** Error: Looking up [\_SB_.SBAT] in namespace, AE_NOT_FOUND
search_node c3f20a60 start_node c3f20a60 return_node 00000000
   ACPI-1133: *** Error: [NULL NAME], AE_NOT_FOUND
   ACPI-0165: *** Error: No object was returned from [\_SB_.PCI0.EIO_.PS2M._STA] (Node c10d96c0), AE_NOT_EXIST
   ACPI-0165: *** Error: No object was returned from [\_SB_.PCI0.EIO_.HDD1._STA] (Node c10d9b20), AE_NOT_EXIST
   ACPI-0165: *** Error: No object was returned from [\_SB_.PCI0.EIO_.COM_._STA] (Node c10d9d20), AE_NOT_EXIST
   ACPI-0165: *** Error: No object was returned from [\_SB_.PCI0.EIO_.ATH1._STA] (Node c10d9ea0), AE_NOT_EXIST
   ACPI-0165: *** Error: No object was returned from [\_SB_.PCI0.EIO_.ECP_._STA] (Node c10d9f80), AE_NOT_EXIST
   ACPI-0165: *** Error: No object was returned from [\_SB_.PCI0.EIO_.LPT_._STA] (Node c10d8240), AE_NOT_EXIST
   ACPI-0165: *** Error: No object was returned from [\_SB_.PCI0.EIO_.SND1._STA] (Node c10d82a0), AE_NOT_EXIST
   ACPI-0165: *** Error: No object was returned from [\_SB_.PCI0.EIO_.PCM4._STA] (Node c10d8400), AE_NOT_EXIST
   ACPI-0165: *** Error: No object was returned from [\_SB_.PCI0.EIO_.PCM6._STA] (Node c10d8680), AE_NOT_EXIST
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S1 S3 S4bios S4 S5)
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: Power Resource [PWH1] (on)
   ACPI-0165: *** Error: No object was returned from [\_SB_.MEM_._CRS] (Node c3f20c20), AE_NOT_EXIST
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:04.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 00:11.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xfd000000, mapped to 0xc501b000, size 1984k
vesafb: mode is 800x480x24, linelength=2400, pages=0
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:8610
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:8:8:8, shift=0:16:8:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x30
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
hda: TOSHIBA MK4310MAT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 8449967 sectors (4326 MB), CHS=525/255/63
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >
ide: late registration of driver.
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 868k freed
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 14:05:13 Aug 18 2005
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev ide0(3,0).
FAT: bogus logical sector size 46341
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:00.
Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
cloop: Initializing cloop v2.01
cloop: loaded (max 128 devices)
cloop: /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX: 1814 blocks, 65536 bytes/block, largest block is 65552 bytes.
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
 options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Enabling device 00:13.0 (0000 -> 0002)
PCI: Enabling device 00:13.1 (0000 -> 0002)
Yenta ISA IRQ mask 0x06b8, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000219
Yenta ISA IRQ mask 0x06b8, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000011
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x220-0x22f 0x330-0x337 0x370-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x3f8-0x3ff 0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
eth0: 3Com 3c589, io 0x300, irq 3, hw_addr 00:10:4B:7D:2F:D6
 8K FIFO split 5:3 Rx:Tx, auto xcvr
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 11:56:04 Aug 29 2005
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
eth0: flipped to 10baseT
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x02 (Driver version 1.16)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
eth0: flipped to 10baseT
eth0: flipped to 10baseT


Aside from the USB parts, I don't see much wrong (I don't have USB on this machine). I'll go through it in more detail, but nothing leaps out at me.

Any ideas? I've run out of other things to try.
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Posted: Nov. 14 2005,09:59 QUOTE

Some additional information:

When I change the theme (using the 'desktop'->'styles' menu item), the changes are remembered between boots, as are my Firefox bookmarks and myDSL application downloads.

In other words, the machine is remembering some settings - just not my network settings.

*edit*
Mikshaw - I just found a post from you in this thread in which you wrote:

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/etc cannot be made persistent with a boot parameter, and files in /etc cannot be restored through the backup/restore process (/etc is not writeable by user dsl).


As my network settings are saved in this folder (eg - /etc/resolv.conf for the nameservers), could this be the issue that is stopping me from saving my settings?

If so, I imagine that I'll need to create a myDSL file with the relevant settings, using the method you outlined in the aforementioned post - correct?
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Posted: Nov. 14 2005,13:15 QUOTE

Okay people, after much searching, I have solved my problem!

The solution was simple, once I'd found the correct search terms: read the FAQ...

Mind you, I had, but somehow missed this.

As I don't seem to be the only person with this issue, I hope that this epic search will be helpful in the future for others :)
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