HD Install :: Settings not saved - lost by rebooting.

Hello all,

I'm having a somewhat frustrating experience: whenever I make changes, they are lost when I reboot. I save them using the 'backup/restore' option, but this has no effect. The best example is the network settings that I configure using Netcardconfig. I set up my networking (a 3com 10mbit PC card, although once I get my config saving, I'll also configure a Netgear WG511T wifi card), but upon reboot, it loses the settings and returns to the default settings of the installation.

Here's some specifics about my machine and installation:
- Libretto 110, 64mb RAM. HD is split into:
- hda1: /cdrom/
- hda5: /home/ /opt/ (-ie - hda5 is my data partition)
- hda6: FAT32 partition, used for installation (my machine doesn't have a CD-ROM drive, and the Libretto floppy is PCMCIA, and so doesn't work for installation). This partition will become swap space once the installation is working perfectly.
- Frugal install of 2.0 rc1, installed from hda6, using the 'fromhd' option to get it to boot;
- Used the 'install_frugal.sh', followed by 'install_grub.sh' to get the OS installed (used a boot floppy to get to the DSL boot options);
- As stated above, hda5 is my data partition, to which I would have thought my configuration should be saved;
- My grub configuration is:
kernel /boot/linux24 root/hda1 quiet vga=808 mydsl=hda5 restore=hda5 opt=hda5 apm apci=off noscsi
- I tried using 'noapci', but this didn't seem to work either, and I have tried rearranging the options in grub as well;

I've also noticed that mydsl downloads also disappear, but until I can get the basic configuration saved, then I am not worrying about this yet.

Needless to say, I've been through the forums for a solution, but nothing has helped that I've found (and I've tried a few things, but all to no avail...) The frustrating thing is that apart from this (somewhat major) issue, DSL is perfect for my machine and is so much better on it than Win98 was.

I get the impression that I'm not the only person with this issue at the moment, as this post appeared whilst I was working on this message.

Any ideas?

I notice you have restore=hda5 and opt=hda5, but no home=hda5. If you have a persistent home and opt there is little reason to use the backup/restore at all. So if you have hda5 dedicated to home and opt, try changing restore=hda5 to home=hda5 and see if that works.
You also have mydsl=hda5, so if you save your mydsl packages to the root of that partition then they should be loaded when you reboot.

Quote (mikshaw @ Nov. 11 2005,21:05)

I notice you have restore=hda5 and opt=hda5, but no home=hda5. If you have a persistent home and opt there is little reason to use the backup/restore at all. So if you have hda5 dedicated to home a

Oops, sorry - that was a typo on my part. I have home=hda5 in there already *blush*

The correct grub entry is:
kernel /boot/linux24 root/hda1 quiet vga=808 mydsl=hda5 restore=hda5 home=hda5 opt=hda5 apm apci=off noscsi

Any other ideas, now that I've got my configuration correct in this forum? ;)

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You also have mydsl=hda5, so if you save your mydsl packages to the root of that partition then they should be loaded when you reboot.

Okay, I'll give that a shot to see whether that works, and whether I was doing this or not.

You might actually need to insert "dsl" into that line, and the "root" part is messed up even though it apparently isn't hurting anything....maybe the root is specified correctly on another line?

kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 dsl quiet vga=808 blah blah blah

Quote (mikshaw @ Nov. 12 2005,08:40)

You might actually need to insert "dsl" into that line, and the "root" part is messed up even though it apparently isn't hurting anything....maybe the root is specified correctly on another line?

*blush again* Damn, I should pay more attention when copying and typing... the 'root' is actually:

root=/dev/hda1 - so is correct.

(Next time I'll copy and paste from the machine in question...)

As to whether adding 'dsl' works... using:

kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 frugal dsl quiet vga=808 mydsl=hda5 restore=hda5 home=hda5 opt=hda5 apm apci=off noscsi

Doesn't work (and, yes, this time I've checked it - this is what I used). Exactly the same happens as before. Any other suggestions?

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