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Apr 19 21:19:24 <peetah> hi all
Apr 19 21:19:40 <peetah> I did a stupid thing and would appreciate any help
Apr 19 21:20:19 <peetah> I installed a debian squeeze on my sheevaplug and then considered moving /etc /var and  /home to an external usb disk
Apr 19 21:21:03 <peetah> so I created and formatted /dev/sda1, copied the above directories and created symbolic link to them from rootfs
Apr 19 21:21:27 <peetah> and of course one rebooted, sheevaplug stopped when it has to choose a runlevel
Apr 19 21:21:50 <peetah> how could I modify the rootfs from uboot without reinstalling everything ?
Apr 19 21:22:20 <peetah> s/one/once/
Apr 19 22:03:07 <Md> peetah: no way. you need to boot some other filesystem
Apr 19 22:03:37 <Md> but actually you can boot in single user mode and then copy back the system
Apr 19 22:03:45 <Md> but it will take some linux experience
Apr 19 22:21:11 <peetah> Md: can't boot in rcS since my /etc/ is not on rootfs anymore
Apr 19 22:21:36 <PhotoJim> well, one idea
Apr 19 22:21:41 <PhotoJim> get another external hard disk... do a new install
Apr 19 22:21:49 <PhotoJim> and then migrate your data over from the flash and your old disk
Apr 19 22:22:03 <PhotoJim> just use the hard disk, don't use the built-in flash
Apr 19 22:22:06 <PhotoJim> that's what I do
Apr 19 22:22:15 <PhotoJim> you can configure the Sheeva to boot off it directly
Apr 19 22:22:21 <Md> peetah: indeed you do not need single user mode, you can boot with init=/bin/bash
Apr 19 22:22:54 <peetah> Md: what would be the command from uboot prompt ?
Apr 19 22:23:13 <peetah> PhotoJim: thanks but i discarded this solution already
Apr 19 22:24:05 <peetah> Md: something like "boot init=/bin/bash" ?
Apr 19 22:24:20 <Md> peetah: maybe, I do not remember the uboot macros
Apr 19 22:24:27 <Md> but yes, it's a kernel command line parameter
Apr 19 22:25:43 <peetah> so it's more like setenv bootargs_rootfs="init=/bin/bash" then boot
Apr 19 22:26:46 <Md> yes
Apr 19 22:29:16 <peetah> it works :)
Apr 19 22:29:23 <peetah> thank you very much !
Apr 19 22:30:18 <peetah> i'm logged in and can go back to my previous configuration now
Apr 19 22:33:39 <peetah> ok so now i'm back to mount /dev/sda1 at boot time
Apr 19 22:34:02 <peetah> I guess I need to setup an initrd to do the job
Apr 19 22:34:11 <peetah> anyway, thanks again Md
Apr 19 22:36:54 <Md> peetah: debian can support /var and /usr on a standalone file system
Apr 19 22:37:34 <peetah> without initrd ?
Apr 19 22:37:48 <Md> yes
Apr 19 22:39:17 <peetah> so /etc was my only problem  ?
Apr 19 22:41:49 <peetah> ok bedtime now
Apr 19 22:41:59 <peetah> see you all
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