<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Anne Wilson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cannewilson@googlemail.com">cannewilson@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Monday 04 August 2008 21:20:18 Richard Shaw wrote:<br>
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Anne Wilson<br>
<<a href="mailto:cannewilson@googlemail.com">cannewilson@googlemail.com</a>>wrote:<br>
> > On Monday 04 August 2008 18:48:44 Anne Wilson wrote:<br>
> > > On Monday 04 August 2008 13:54:30 Jeremy Katz wrote:<br>
> > > > This got filed relatively recently and fixed up. For F9-based<br>
> > > > images, though, you'll have to do a workaround of removing<br>
> > > > the /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules.rpm* (or at least, move<br>
> ><br>
> > them<br>
> ><br>
> > > > out of the way)<br>
> > ><br>
> > > I thought I was almost there. I gave it an overlay of 6533 MB, got it<br>
> > > booted and running on the EeePC, then started the big update.<br>
> > > Unfortunately that took so long that the battery ran out while I was<br>
> > > away from it. There could be packages still in the cache to be<br>
> > > installed, but<br>
> ><br>
> > I<br>
> ><br>
> > > can't move about at all. I have a bash prompt but it doesn't<br>
> > > recognise basic bash commands such as cd and mv.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > It's clear from the warning message I got that I do need to do the<br>
> > > workaround mentioned above.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Any advice on how to proceed?<br>
> ><br>
> > I now have the exact messages in front of me:<br>
> ><br>
> > usb 2-1: device not accepting address 2, error -71<br>
> > sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through<br>
> > sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through<br>
> > /init: line 478: /sysroot/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev*: ambiguous redirect<br>
> > Bug in initramfs /init detected. Dropping to a shell. Good luck!<br>
> ><br>
> > (by which I guess it means I'll need it :-) )<br>
> ><br>
> > The prompt says<br>
> > bash-3.2#<br>
> ><br>
> > and doesn't recognise commands.<br>
> ><br>
> > Anne<br>
><br>
> Go into /etc/udev/rules.d/ and delete the extra file with the rpmsave or<br>
> rpmnew.<br>
><br>
> Richard<br>
<br>
</div></div>I can't Richard. It doesn't recognise any commands, and the file system isn't<br>
accessible if I boot from the hard drive.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
Anne<br>
</font></blockquote><div><br>You'll have to rezero your overlay file and start over then... You can do it manually from a windows or linux box but the dd command is a little different for each. On a linux box it's something like:<br>
<br>dd if=/dev/zero of=/mount/path/LiveOS/overlay-{LABEL}-{UUID} bs=1M count={size of overlay in MB}<br><br>Or on windows (the dd.exe is located under tools in the liveusb-creator directory)<br><br>dd.exe if=/dev/zero of={drive letter}:\LiveOS\overlay-{LABEL}-{UUID} bs=1M count={size of overlay in MB}<br>
<br>Just look at the current name of your overlay file and overwrite it rather than looking up the LABEL and UUID.<br><br>I, like others, have created an extra entry in my syslinx.cfg without the overlay option just in case I hose my overlay file and still want to be able to use it.<br>
<br>Richard<br></div></div></div>