[OLPC-devel] Booting from uncleanly dismounted flash key.

[Jim Gettys]

Ah, the dangers of going through my mail backwards....

                               - Jim


On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 16:11 -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> 
> Jim Gettys wrote:
> > If you have an ext3 image on a flash key and boot via LinuxBIOS, the
> > boot fails, and you get dropped into a shell.  fsck -p of the flash
> key,
> > and everything is fine again.
> > 
> > Is there some way to fix this?  This feels very fragile to me.
> >                                - Jim
> > 
> 
> It's a headache. Part of the problem (Which I have mentioned from
> time 
> to time) is that the boot script does the wrong thing and leaves the
> USB 
> file system in an unclean state.
> 
> What it does:
> kexec from the usb key
> 
> what it should do:
> 
> cp bzimage /tmp
> cp initrd /tmp
> unmount /
> kexec /tmp/bzimage "args" /tmp/initrd
> 
> This would clean things up quite a bit.
> 
-- 
Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child