I sent this reply to ChrisM off-list but in reflection I'm sending it to the list to help people in future who search the archives requiring similar help.
Chris
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris Scott chrisjscott@gmail.com Date: 18-May-2006 13:54 Subject: Re: [sisela] Boot option attempts... To: chris.mooney@kelleylog.com
Hi
If /floppy is empty then it sounds like you haven't mounted the floppy drive to this point and I don't recall Sisela doing that automatically but I could be wrong. Run something like:
"mount /dev/fd0 /floppy"
You may need to use;
"mount /dev/fd0u1680 /floppy"
as the floppy is in the non-standard format. Then run "mount" to see that it is mounted and "ls /floppy" to see the files. If that worked you can then proceed with vi and sync. This is more of a general Linux problem than a Sisela one.
There used to be an IRC channel where we would discuss Sisela. If you want more interactive help then bug me and I'll maybe resurrect the channel. It died due to lack of interest but I'm still willing to help others.
Hope that helps
Chris
On 18/05/06, Christopher T. Mooney chris.mooney@kelleylog.com wrote:
OK,
Many thanks to you ChrisS and Farmalar for answering... Itried going to the /floppy directory, running vi to create a boot.sh script, put my networking commands in it (ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up), and typing :wq to exit. I do an ls and see boot.sh there in the floppy directory. Now I do a sync as suggested, and reboot (using the reboot command, not ctl+alt+del). When sisela comes back up I go to the /floppy directory and do an ls. The directory is empty... Any Ideas? It never really seemed to access the floppy when I did the sync. If the machine was able to read the floppy it should be able to write to it, correct?
Thanks again!
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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 15:15:21 +0100 From: "Chris Scott" chrisjscott@gmail.com Subject: Re: [sisela] Saving boot options To: "discussion of the Sisela networking boot disk" sisela@earth.li Message-ID: 9fcc08fd0605160715j47279682w3bcb061a868f0a07@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Hi
Did you run "sync" to actually write the file to the floppy? IIRC you can put BusyBox shell commands into boot.sh on the floppy and it will then execute them on boot.
It's been a while since I've run Sisela but if you need better help I could fire it up and have a look. This list is probably your best shot for support.
Cheers
Chris
On 15/05/06, Christopher T. Mooney chris.mooney@kelleylog.com wrote:
Hello,
I am just getting started with Sisela, and am a mite confusedabout how to save commands to be run on system startup. Sisela tells me that if I save a file in the /floppy directory called boot.<something> (I can't remember quite what the filename is, and I don't have the machine I am testing out Sisela on here at work), then Sisela will run those commands upon startup. I tried doing this, but after re-boot, the file was gone! Of course this seemed obvious to me when I remembered that the root filesystem is a bz2 image, I just thought that perhaps sisela would save the boot command file back to the compressed image file on shutdown. Is there a way to force sisela to do this? Or do I need to build sisela from the sources or just create my own filesystem image to load on the boot floppy? Any help I can get here would be most appreciated. I think Sisela is ultimately cool
and am really looking forward to using it!
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Message: 2 Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 07:57:13 -0300 From: "Farmalar" farmalar@terra.com.br Subject: Re: [sisela] Saving boot options To: "discussion of the Sisela networking boot disk" sisela@earth.li Message-ID: 000a01c679a0$a8733a90$0500a8c0@Micro4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hello friend! I4m not expert on linux and I don4t speak English very well too, but I will tray to explain to you.Ok? You just need to create a fille in the floppy directory: vi boot.sh In my case, I put inside it : ifconfig eth0 up ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 and more
I hope , I could help you and.... sorry for my bad English....
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher T. Mooney" chris.mooney@kelleylog.com To: sisela@earth.li Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 9:49 AM Subject: [sisela] Saving boot options
Hello,
I am just getting started with Sisela, and am a mite confused about how to save commands to be run on system startup. Sisela tells me that if
I
save a file in the /floppy directory called boot.<something> (I can't remember quite what the filename is, and I don't have the machine I am testing out Sisela on here at work), then Sisela will run those commands upon startup. I tried doing this, but after re-boot, the file
was gone! Of
course this seemed obvious to me when I remembered that the root
filesystem
is a bz2 image, I just thought that perhaps sisela would save the boot command file back to the compressed image file on shutdown. Is there a
way
to force sisela to do this? Or do I need to build sisela from the sources or just create my own filesystem image to load on the boot floppy? Any
help
I can get here would be most appreciated. I think Sisela is ultimately
cool
and am really looking forward to using it!
Thanks!
Chris
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On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 01:56:58PM +0100, Chris Scott wrote:
If /floppy is empty then it sounds like you haven't mounted the floppy drive to this point and I don't recall Sisela doing that automatically but I could be wrong.
0.3 should mount the floppy automatically on boot; there's code to do this in /etc/rcS. It does however depends on the kernel command line having included a line like sisela-boot=floppy-1680 to get the right device. If you've tweaked the boot options you might have broken this, so check /proc/cmdline to see if it's there.
'mount' should also tell you if the floppy is actually mounted.
If sync doesn't seem to do anything, try unmounting and remounting the floppy after writing the file, and checking whether it's appeared?
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