[Soekris] [Fwd: Re: Fedora 7 no drives visible]

[Chris Cappuccio]

can't you just pxe boot the OS and install like normal?
this is sheer madness

R Bruce Hoffman [bruce.hoffman at iseries-admin.net] wrote:
> Because private mail was not what I expected from the list... just in 
> case someone else has the same question...
> 
> -- 
> "Suppose you were an idiot...
>  And suppose you were a member of Congress...
>  But I repeat myself."
>    - Mark Twain
> 
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> R Bruce Hoffman
> 
> 

> Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:19:32 -0400
> From: R Bruce Hoffman <bruce.hoffman at iseries-admin.net>
> To: Kannaiyan Natesan <gbpnkans at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Soekris] Fedora 7 no drives visible
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> 
> Honestly... no. I am unable to share the details of that information... 
> it's considered proprietary. And there is very little "truely" relevant 
> information currently available on the web.
> 
> Off the record... build an FC4 machine. Three partitions. First 
> partition full root and install. Boot. Mount second partition as 
> /duplicate, copy foundation to /duplicate. Screw with grub config to 
> bring up /duplicate as root (boot into second partition.) Scrub to small 
> system with essential services on /duplicate. Reboot back into first 
> partition. Construct image files on third partition. Mount image file in 
> loop device. Copy /duplicate parts to the mounted image file. Unmount. 
> Copy image to CF card.  Grub up the CF card. Pull out the CF card. Mount 
> in Soekris.
> 
> But this is just the beginning. You need to mess with the init.d scripts 
> and Red Hat has specific ways of booting read only and shutdown's are a 
> problem as is making ramdisk images available for certain writeable 
> directories during normal operations.
> 
> 
> Kannaiyan Natesan wrote:
> >Hi Bruce,
> >
> >Can you please let me know how you managed to run Fedora Core 4 onto
> >CF and boot the soekris. I'm looking for similar solution for net
> >5501.
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Regards,
> >kannaiyan
> >
> >On 7/9/07, R Bruce Hoffman <bruce.hoffman at iseries-admin.net> wrote:
> >>I have both 4801 and 5501 running with Fedora Core 4 from CF.
> >>
> >>I have noticed that during the attempted boot of Fedora 7, that there
> >>are no drives visible during the nash init script running from the
> >>initial ram disk image, nor during a non-initrd boot. No hda, no sda, no
> >>labels...
> >>
> >>Does anyone know what driver I might be missing here?
> >>
> >>I have tried the various ones that are listed from a search of the
> >>CS5536 and AMD stuff through the initrd image, (like , pata_cs5535.ko ,
> >>5530 and 5520) but I don't see anything in the modules that acknowledges
> >>the CF configuration like what happened in the FC4 versions.
> >>
> >>Is this just a matter of the 5536 being too new for Fedora? Or am I
> >>missing something else?
> >>
> >>
> >>-- 
> >>"Suppose you were an idiot...
> >>  And suppose you were a member of Congress...
> >>  But I repeat myself."
> >>    - Mark Twain
> >>
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> >>R Bruce Hoffman
> >>
> >>
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>  But I repeat myself."
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> 
> ===========================================================
> R Bruce Hoffman
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