LifeBoat config ???
I am using USB cd writer. It is detected by my RH9.
I didn't burn cds yet but I played cd... Do I have to change default in config file? Thanks. Michael. CDR_DEVICE The CDR_DEVICE is the scsi address of your CD-RW. The default is: CDR_DEVICE="0,0,0" IDESCSI= If your CD-RW is on /dev/hdd and uses ide-scsi emulation then enter: IDESCSI="hdd=ide-scsi" The default is: IDESCSI="hdb=ide-scsi" |
Hi,
I am the person who wrote LifeBoat. I have not tested it on a USB CD writer because I do not own one. You are the first person that I know of who has tried to use LifeBoat to burn a USB CD. So I guess you are my guinea penguin on USB CD writers. I looked at the following link to see what is involved with writing CDs on a USB CD writer: http://www.tuxmobil.org/linux_usb_cd.html From what I read there I would say that CDR_DEVICE="0,0,0" should work just like it does for an IDE CD writer. If your CD writer is the first (or only) scsi device on your system then its device number is 0,0,0. If it is the second scsi device then its number is 1,0,0 and so on. If you set the CDR_DEVICE parameter incorrectly then LifeBoat will not burn a LifeBoat CD. I can only guess about IDESCI=. The purpose of this parameter is to tell the kernel to use the scsi modules for a device that is configured as IDE. If your USB CD writer is configured as a native scsi device then you do not need IDESCI and you should set it to null: IDESCSI= If your USB writer is configured as native IDE then you need an IDESCI parameter to tell LifeBoat which IDE device is being run as a scsi device. The IDESCSI parameter is needed by the LifeBoat kernel at boot. If you set it incorrectly the only problem that will happen is that the LifeBoat rescue CD will not be able to write CDs, something that people rarely do in rescue mode anyway. Also if you need the IDESCSI parameter then you also need it for your desktop kernel. You should have the parameter in your bootloader, either grub or lilo. If you don't get LifeBoat to burn a CD on the first try or two then I suggest that you first learn to burn an ordinary ISO9660 data CD, then tell me how to do that on an USB CD writer and I could probably tell you how to make it work in LifeBoat. In any case I would like you to let me know how things work out in detail so that I can do whatever is necessary to make LifeBoat work on USB CD. ___________________________________ Be prepared. Create a LifeBoat CD. http://users.rcn.com/srstites/LifeBo...home.page.html Steve Stites |
Nice to meet you Mr. Creator!
Steve, I post the same question on another forum since here was no answers and I received one: Re:LifeBoat config « Reply #1 on: October 14, 2003, 07:52:59 PM » Reply with quote -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- for me, I have an USB 2.0 CD-RW that just works out of the box. I plug it in, and X CD Roast just sees it. What does (as root) cdrecord --scanbus show? __________________________________________________ I did that. May the output will tell you something. login as: root root@xxxxx's password: Last login: Tue Oct 14 22:12:26 2003 from 10.0.0.10 [root@RH9 root]# cdrecord --scanbus Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI dr iver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. Looks like it will not work for me. But I will try tomorrow at work and will let you know... Thanks. Michael. |
Hello Steve,
sorry, yesterday my colegue took this removable writer and after didn't plugin the power. Yesterday I run scanbus through ssh to my office RH.... :)) I will try to create LifeBoat now. Looks like everythinf is fine. This is today's result: [root@RH9 root]# cdrecord --scanbus Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J?rg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 8200 ' '1.0f' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * |
Steve,
I created cd. When I boot computer hangs on line: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0. What is wrong? Here is out of disk creation: [root@RH9 LifeBoat-0.2]# ./lifeboat begin config processing CDR_DEVICE=0,0,0 CDR_SPEED= DISTRO=generic IDESCSI=hdb=ide-scsi KERNEL=/boot/vmlinuz MANPAGES=yes MYNAME=STITES RAMDISK_SIZE=250 end config processing 250+0 records in 250+0 records out mke2fs 1.32 (09-Nov-2002) Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=1024 (log=0) Fragment size=1024 (log=0) 64000 inodes, 256000 blocks 12800 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=1 32 block groups 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group 2000 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729, 204801, 221185 Writing inode tables: done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done This filesystem will be automatically checked every 38 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override. begin generic processing cp: cannot stat `/bin/eject': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/bin/guessfstype': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/sbin/cfdisk': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/sbin/killproc': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/sbin/pidofproc': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/sbin/start_daemon': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/usr/bin/basename': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/usr/bin/chroot': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/usr/bin/grep': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/usr/bin/loadkeys': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/usr/bin/nice': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/usr/bin/sed': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/usr/bin/zcat': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/usr/lib/awk/*': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/usr/sbin/parted': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/include/*': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/*': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/usr/bin/catman': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/usr/bin/mandb': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/usr/lib/man-db/*': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/usr/sbin/accessdb': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/var/adm/fillup-templates/sysconfig.cron-man': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/var/cache/man/index.db': No such file or directory end generic processing begin addons processing end addons processing 89M .of ramdisk used out of 250M allocated. Size of boot image is 4 sectors -> No emulation 25.20% done, estimate finish Wed Oct 15 10:53:12 2003 50.42% done, estimate finish Wed Oct 15 10:53:10 2003 75.56% done, estimate finish Wed Oct 15 10:53:10 2003 Total translation table size: 2048 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 752 Total directory bytes: 0 Path table size(bytes): 10 Max brk space used 4000 19856 extents written (38 Mb) Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J?rg Schilling Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 2 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'HP ' Identifikation : 'CD-Writer+ 8200 ' Revision : '1.0f' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC SWABAUDIO Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R96R starting to burn STITES LIFEBOAT SYSTEM Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J?rg Schilling scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 2 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'HP ' Identifikation : 'CD-Writer+ 8200 ' Revision : '1.0f' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC SWABAUDIO Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R96R Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real TAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts. Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 40665088/40665088 (19856 sectors). STITES LIFEBOAT SYSTEM has been successfully created [root@RH9 LifeBoat-0.2]# |
"What is wrong?"
The LifeBoat ramdisk is probably too big for your computer memory. Set: RAMDISK_SIZE=110 "cp: cannot stat `/bin/eject': No such file or directory" You can probably get rid of these error messages by setting the DISTRO variable to the name of your distribution. Also you shoule set the MYNAME variable to your name. MYNAME=Michael ------------------- Steve Stites |
Thanks Steve.
It's my test pc (200M - RAM) |
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