Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Installing on mSATA drive

Quoting Dominic Raferd <dl...@ed...>:

> Hi Martin
>
> Can you tell us what you see, without USB stick in, when the boot
> process gets to the stage:
>
> Creating devices in /dev
> Searching for configuration media
> Checking...
>
> what gets checked and what results are returned?
>
> I wonder if your system is checking the device where etc-mods-tar.bz2 is
> stored, or if it is trying to check it but is unable to read it. With
> your USB stick out I think the mSATA drive would be /dev/sda. Did you
> store the configuration on the first partition of mSATA (/dev/sda1) or
> on a separate second partition (/dev/sda2)? If the former, you might try
> the latter, it is really better anyway. What boot loader are you using?
> Did you (re-)format the partition(s) and if so how?
>
> Dominic
>
> [ After the initial boot process there are normally two steps to finding
> the DL system configuration:
>
>  1. search for etc-mods.tar.bz2 on devices in turn (e.g. /dev/hda
>     /dev/hdc1 /dev/hdc /deb/hdb1) which should (of course) end with
>     success, then 'loading configuration'
>  2. search for Devil-Linux CD-ROM, in this case a 'Search List' is first
>     printed (e.g. /dev/hda /dev/hdc /dev/hdb) and then they are checked
>     in turn, so this should end with 'Found Devil-Linux v...' ]

Do you see your partitions listed?
Does the kernel detect your SATA controller? Does it find the drive?

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   Heiko Zuerker
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