[ale] Devil of a time with Devil-Linux

runman runman at speedfactory.net
Sun Feb 26 00:32:13 EST 2006


If you are having problems with this you might want to look at
http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/ 
I used it for awhile before going to Astaro and keep it around for
"instant-firewall" needs.
One of the most no-mess no-fuss apps I have seen.

Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Joe
To: ale at ale.org
Knapka
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 12:02 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Devil of a time with Devil-Linux

Stephen Cristol wrote:

>   Kernel 2.4.31-grsec
>   Monting SHM FS on /shm
>   waiting until usb storage driver has initialized all devices ...
>   Loading loop AES module
>   Using /lib/modules/2.4.31-grsec/kernel/drivers/block/loop.o
>   Searching for configuration media
>   Checking for "etc.tar.bz2" on "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/
>part1" ... file not found
>   Checking for "etc.tar.bz2" on "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/
>part2" ... file not found
>   Checking for "etc.tar.bz2" on "/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/
>cd" ... mount failed
>   Checking for "etc.tar.bz2" on "/dev/floppy/0" ... success!
>   loading configuration
>   Searching for Devil-Linux CD-ROM
>   Searching list: /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd
>   checking /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd mount failed
>   checking /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 wrong media
>   checking /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 wrong media
>   !!! Devil-Linux CD-ROM not found !!!
>
>   Please check your hardware!
>   Booting will NOT continue, you have to reset to try again.
>
>The machine will boot Windows 98 from the hard drive, Knoppix 4.0.2 
>from CD (ever so slowly), and DSL (damn small linux) 2.2 from CD.
>I've run a complete pass of memtest and checked both NICs (Linksys, D-
>Link) using DSL.
>
>Anyone have experience with Devil-Linux?
>  
>
I use it for my firewall, on a 5-year-old Emachines box.  I do recall that
at some point early on I had a similar problem, but I don't remember the
cause.  It may have been
a badly-burned CD?  The "wrong media" messages seem relevant.  Also,   I 
seem to
recall that I had to hook the CD-ROM drive up to the primary IDE bus for
things to work properly. But I'm just guessing, since it's probably been
three years since I set up my Devil box originally.

I tried some other CD firewalls, such as Smoothwall, but what I like about
Devil is that it doesn't try to over-automate things. Smoothwall IIRC has
maybe three pre-packaged configurations, like "Dialup", "Broadband",
"Broadband with DMZ"
or something like that; but if you want something different, it's painful to
customize.
Devil is very Slackware-like, and if you change anything in /etc, it happily
saves your changes to the configuration medium without making you jump
through any hoops or forcing you to defeat a "helpful"
configuration-management system.

-- JK


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