Daniel, When I use a Debian based live cd (Debian, Ubuntu, Mepis, etc.) the cd starts and displays the options for the cd. Thus, I would conclude that initrd worked as designed. Am I correct on this?
Beyond that point is one about good programming. I do work for data acquisition systems, and we have a rule: Send a command to the remote device; set the timeout clock; if there is no response in time, try again; if there is still no response, flag an error and move on. NEVER EVER hang the system because one sub-system is not responding. Seems like good advice for Debian (or the kernel). That said, I will check the drive jumpers as soon as I have an hour (allow for things that just happen). However, this should not be needed because Debian 5 and everything based on it still boots just fine. Thus, I doubt that the jumper is the proximate cause of the boot problem. Dave, On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 05:37 +0100, "Daniel Baumann" <daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net> wrote: > On 03/20/2011 10:58 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote: > > I know that live-boot *can* probe for drives and make use of them. > > Whether it does in this case, I'd have to delve into > > /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/live. (Daniel could probably tell you > > quicker about this than I could.) > > regardless from which type of media you boot from, the initrd needs to > find the rootfs, and therefore probes all devices until it finds the > live media with the rootfs on it. > > if you know which device you're booting from, you can specify it at boot > prompt, see man live-boot. > > -- > Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist > Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net > Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/4d86d61f.3090...@progress-technologies.net > > -- dave boland dbola...@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1300713508.6204.1432085...@webmail.messagingengine.com
