persistence and custom kernel

[jordipujolp at gmail.com (Jordi Pujol)]

Hello,

I add to this,
In some machines searching the floppy devices for a live filesystem gives an 
unrecoverable error,

We can solve that editing the live-initramfs package and excluding floppies 
from the devices

that lines contains text like that (not exactly, that is my own version):

echo /sys/block/* | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -ve '/ram' -ve '/loop'

and we should exclude /fd devices also

grep -ve '/ram' -ve '/loop' -ve '/fd'

Best Regards,

Jordi Pujol

El Tuesday 15 January 2008 01:42:13 Santiago Andres Triana va escriure:
> Hi,
>
> I have not been able to get a persistent file system by following any of
> the methods described in the wiki.
> I am using a custom kernel with compiled in unionfs and squashfs with no
> floppy disk support. I put the live system on a usb stick. The host system
> is debian/lenny.
>
> When using the 'persistent' option in grub the system initially boots fine
> but eventually shows:
>
> end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
>
> and keeps printing the same message over and over.
>
>
> When I do not use the persistent option, the same message appears a few
> times but then the boot process keeps going and eventually succeeds.
> Unfortunately, the live-snapshot does not seem to work after a reboot in
> this case.
>
> Is the error due to my custom kernel lacking floppy support? or is it
> something else?
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> Santiago