Re: usb-hdd image and persistent storage
Greetings,
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Matthias Degenkolb <degmat@web.de> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I have 2 problems using the usb-hdd Live image profile in Debian Lenny and
> persistent settings. Hopefully somebody can help me.
>
> 1.)
> I have a 2 GB CF-card with the binary.img image flashed. The rest of the 2
> GB CF card is supposed to hold a 2nd partition with snapshots ("live-sn")
> either as cpio archives or whatever. My problem: When I use the "persistent"
> flag, the system drops to console in initramfs without any error message.
> Without the "persistent" flag everything works fine(at least the system
> boots) but "live-snapshot --refresh" (or "live-snapshot --refresh -d
> /dev/hda2") nags that no resync string is contained in /etc/live.conf. How
> do I have to format and label hda2 to get this running? Do I need to set the
> persistent flag?
I too am having an issue and looking in to this a bit. But to be sure
could you boot with debug param and paste live.log to
paste.debian.net?
>
> Annotation: when setting persistent and formatting/labelling hda2 as
> "live-rw" persistence works (but causesa flash write every time a file is
> altered which significantly kills flash -- my native Debian install before
> destroyed the CF card in less than 7 months...)
I have been wandering how long one would last.
>
> 2.)
> Daemons like mpd or postfix nag that they cannot create log files and
> therefore don't start(e.g. /var/log/mpd/mpd.log). This is also the same when
> creating the folders in config/chroot_local-includes and chmod'ing them to
> 777. A "touch <filename>" in bash works flawlessly in the Live system. Is
> this a aufs specialty or a permission problem? I disabled autologin and work
> via own /etc/passwd, /etc/group and /etc/shadow files...
>
> Can anyone help me further? I couldn't find much helpful information on
> these issues...
>
> The hardware:
> Geode GX1 233 MHz, 256 MB RAM, 2GB CF card in IDE adapter, 16 GB USB stick.
>
>
>
>
> The software:
> Debian Lenny
> live-initramfs V 1.156.1 + 1.57.1-1
> live-helper V. 1.0.3-2
>
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for everybody reading so far :)
>
Welcome.
> Regards,
>
> M. Degenkolb
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