portable persistant changes
No this is not the same question posted x number of times on this forum (I've read them all).
I have installed BT3 final on a USB stick containing 3 partitions:
sda1: 4GB ntfs containing BT3 vmware image (in-case I don't want to boot)
sda2: 1GB fat32 containing boot and BT3 (boot partition)
sda3: 3GB ext2 containing the changes folder
I have changed the bootmenu and added changes=/dev/sda3
Now my problem is that if I boot my USB stick on certain laptops (with sata disks) the USB stick will become sdb instead of sda and the changes won't work.
Is there any way to get past this? Can I use disk labels/id's or anything like that instead of /dev/sda?
make folder
Hi,
This is my file syslinux:
LABEL pchangesMy
MENU LABEL BT3 Modo grafico con cambios persistentes SDB2
KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz
APPEND vga=0x317 initrd=/boot/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw changes=/dev/sdb2 autoexec=xconf;kdm
I'm install BT3 into usb storage with two partitions dev/sdb1 for system in fat32 format and dev/sdb2 with changes.
You need a forder name "changes" into dev/sdb3
Regards
not the issue
Thanks Carlitos, but that is not the problem I am having. Everything works fine as long as my USB stick gets mapped to sda or sdb all the time (depending on which I have set in the menu). The problem is that on some machines it gets mapped to sda and on some to sdb, so I would need the changes=/dev/sda3 option to not be specified to a specific mapping. It would be nice to be able to use a UUID or ext2 label instead.
I will try to make a mountpoint on the fat32 partition by using UUID or label and see if I can get the changes to point to that mounted directory. This should work right? anyone?
There is a way to make linux map your drives to a name like "drive 1" instead of sda1 or sdb1. I will try to find the document I used to do it and post it later. I know a post with a promise for help is kinda silly however I just wanted to say that this can be done.
Found the requested link in my collection (sry pureh@te)
http://wikis.sun.com/display/BigAdmi...x+File+Systems
The keyword is e2label:
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/E2label
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Create a new syslinux menu option with the correct parameters. If the machine has sata drives then the usb drive will be different.
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udev
I was hoping I could use the e2label and refer to the partition using /dev/disk/by-label/mylabel (which gets set up by udev) instead of /dev/sdx3, but alas that does not work either. It seems like the boot process looks for the changes folder before it goes to inittab (where udev is run).
How exactly does the boot process work? Is there any way I could change the order of things to get udev to perform the by-label mapping before the changes folder is referenced?
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