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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Specific question on creating a new filesystem, kernel on a CF card ...
From: David Hawkins <>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 16:36:06 -0700
Hi Joe,

> Speaking for the TS7200 which I am most familiar with... This is a little
> different paradigm than a PC.  The kernel doesn't live on the CF card like on
> the disk of your PC.  It still lives on one partition of the onboard flash,
> almost like burning the kernel to the BIOS.

Ah, so its different again than the TS-7300.

Is the kernel-on-flash a requirement? If redboot loads the kernel, then
surely it can pick it up from /boot/vmlinux just as easily as the
flash.

> This is what I do... DON'T start with the fis delete, etc. Read the part about
> loading the kernel across the network. Get your kernel set up on you 
> development
> PC with the tftpd running.  run fconfig and set the script to load the kernel
> from your development PC.  Do that many times while you are developing (I've 
> run
> that way for days at a time).  When you quite sure you like this kernel, then
> you fis delete and fis create.

Dave's original question really involved two things;

   - new kernel
   - new filesystem

So in your TFTP setup, what do you use as the filesystem;
the old one on the CF card, or a new one via NFS?

Once you have a new kernel proofed, then you can flash it,
and move onto upgrading the filesystem. If NFS works, you
can upgrade the NFS version until you're happy, and then
copy it onto the CF.

Joe, any comments on what you do?

Cheers
Dave


 
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