Empowering the Zdrv

[Pelo]

çà pourrait être intérressant d'en informer les non-citoyens de sa majesté, hispanisants et francophonistes entre autres.
Give the information to european citizen would be of some interest.
Can we make a summary of this subject and inform the rest of the world ? pls answer yes ! (Germany and consort excepted bien sûr, top secret)
Le comté de Bulkley-Nechako et la province de la Colombie-Britannique parlent-ils français, je l'ignore. nous devrons sans doute faire la traduction, à moins que nos amis quebecquois s'y attachent.

a tribute to the men and women who served in the Canadian Army during D-Day and World War II. To these people, we owe the freedom that we take for granted. Let us never forget their sacrifice. God bless them all.
junobeach

[musher0]

Thank you kindly for your thought of gratitude, pelo.

Canadians rarely toot their own horns, but in this case we should. I have
met and discussed with a few French-Canadian veterans of the Normandy
assault, and they were indeed quite aware that they were contributing to the
liberation of the land of our fore-fathers.

"Contributing", because indeed, alongside us were American, British and Australian
soldiers, your own General Leclerc's tank division, some Polish airmen, etc., etc.

I wish the younger generation of Canadians had your sense of history.

BFN.

[B.K. Johnson]

Hi guys
I posted a query here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=94449
but haven't got an answer. I would appreciate your help. Thanks.

B.K. Johnson

[musher0]

Hi guys
I posted a query here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=94449
but haven't got an answer. I would appreciate your help. Thanks.

B.K. Johnson

Hello.

I just answered you there.

Best regards.

musher0

[nic007]

I've tried this but get a kernel panic at loading. Made a zdrv.sfs and copied contents of pup_rw to it. Then swapped the names of the base sfs and zdrv. Booting from flashdrive and zdrv, base sfs, initrd.gz, vmlinuz located in the same directory. Is there a way to make it work without tinkering with the initrd.gz?

[musher0]

Hi nic007.

It's easy to squish stuff with this procedure. I hope you have a back-up?
Please see my post above and jrb's reply.

BFN.

[nic007]

Hi nic007.

It's easy to squish stuff with this procedure. I hope you have a back-up?
Please see my post above and jrb's reply.

BFN.

Hi musher0, not sure I follow. I don't have a devx file. Will it work if the two sfs files are not in the same location... where should I move it to? ....or does this method just have issues anyway like it may work or may not?

[gyro]

Of course instead of renaming files or moding the initrd.gz, you could try specifying them as boot params.

Here is an extract from slacko 5.7 "init", (it's been in standard "init" for a while now)

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[ $pupsfs ] && PUPSFS=$pupsfs #format partition:<path><filename> ex: sda2:/wary071/wary_071.sfs
[ $zdrv ] && ZDRV=$zdrv #ex: sda2:/wary071/zdrv_071.sfs
[ $adrv ] && ADRV=$adrv
[ $ydrv ] && YDRV=$ydrv

This shows how to use these params. e.g.

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pupsfs=sda2:/wary071/zdrv_071.sfs zdrv=sda2:/wary071/wary_071.sfs

or

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ydrv=sda2:/wary071/zdrv_071.sfs

Just be aware of the following limitations:
1) They don't fail gracefully, so get it right.
2) They cannot work on usb drives
3) Only the pup..sfs and pupsave code is capbable of mounting a partition. All other sfs's must reside on one of these 2 partitions.

Remember the order of the sfs's in the aufs stack is adrv, ydrv, pupsfs, zdrv.

gyro

[nic007]

I've copied the files to hard drive and re-booted. It now seems to load without kernel panic but later stops at a login error