... and we're back

well, i couldn't get it to boot off the CF anymore, so I just started over. i think the problem was that after i reloaded OpenWrt on the internal flash and installed the usb/storage drivers, it thought the CF filesystem "magically" changed to vfat and it didn't want to mount as root anymore. now i know that i mke2fs'd it. ah well.

so, i altered the swap technique by adding an /etc/fstab, making the swap init.d script S90swap and making it's entire contents "/usr/sbin/swapon -a". the contents of /etc/fstab are:

/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun2/part1 swap swap defaults 0 0

i think my next step will be to dump dropbear and start running OpenSSH. i once spent entirely too many hours to get DSA keys to work with dropbear, unsuccessfully. i should have enough memory to run a real ssh daemon. besides, i think all the libs are pre-req's for OpenVPN anyway. or maybe remote syslogging. i've been seeing these weird scsi errors in 'dmesg' after it boots. i think it's for the empty slots in the flash memory reader - i believe i'm using sda and sdc (lun0 and lun2). i'm seeing errors for sdb and sdd as follows, but it's only the end of the error dump:

sdd : READ CAPACITY failed.
sdd : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 
Current sd00:00: sns = 70  2
ASC=3a ASCQ= 0
Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 
sdd : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.  
sdd: Write Protect is off
 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun3: I/O error: dev 08:30, sector 0
 I/O error: dev 08:30, sector 0
VFS: Disk change detected on device 08:30
sdd: Unit Not Ready, sense:
Current 00:00: sns = 70  2
ASC=3a ASCQ= 0
Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00