Re: ltsp-usb

[Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>]

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On 08-12-2004 15:41, Ragnar Wisloff wrote:

> I was able to access the pen having restarted floppyd with the
> devfs-device after having changed manually the permissions. But after
> removing and reinserting the pen no access was possible.
> 
> So I wonder if it is correct for floppyd to use the static /dev/sda1 or
> whatever device, perhaps the correct device is the devfs one. And
> possibly floppyd does not handle devfs very well.

With devfs /dev/sda1 is (or should be!) a symlink to the actual device.

Either that symlink is not (yet?) created, or floppyd does not handle
symlinks to devices.

Check if /dev/sda1 actually exists after unplugging and re-plugging the
USB key. That is not always the case - guides for booting off of USB
keys tend to include adding the following after loading the USB modules
to "wakeup" the device:

/bin/sleep 5
/sbin/sfdisk -R /dev/sda || true


(the fallback to true I invented myself, because it may fail and that is
fatal in an initrd)

 - Jonas

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