Re: [Axiom-developer] 20081202.02.tpd.patch (website download.html add Doyen Thumbdrive)

[William Sit]

Hi Alfredo:

Thanks for the quick suggestion. I'll try that this 
weekend when I have more time.

The following report probably is unrelated to Doyen (or 
Axiom), but more to BIOS and drivers?

One minor "complaint" or rather "bug report": Doyen is not 
supposed to alter the machine or original OS. However I 
have found that, on my laptop (Acer Travelmate 7520G 
running Windows Vista Home Premium, SP1), the time of day 
(or perhaps the time zone, I'm not sure which) is always 
altered after I shut down Doyen and reboot to Windows 
Vista. This happens even when I simply do a restart right 
after booting up. I suspect this is due to Doyen modifying 
the time or time zone setting, say to manual instead of 
from internet time, since manual is the setting I got 
after rebooting to Windows even though I reset it back to 
internet time. If this is correct, then Doyen might have 
modified some BIOS setting.  Alternative theory: internet 
is not connected early enough in the boot process and the 
time zone is not set/reset correctlly (although the choice 
presented always has, in my case, Eastern US, as the 
default). I am not certain whether the time during Doyen 
is correct or not. I think it is.

Also, while Doyen recognizes the wireless hardware 
(Broadcom BCM 43 family), the driver does not seem to 
recognize the on/off switch that controls the wireless 
(kind of like *the switch*, not the hardware itself,  is 
disabled). This is probably again a BIOS and driver 
problem.

Thanks again for all your hard work on the Doyen project.

William

On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 10:19:34 -0500
 "Alfredo Portes" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi William,
>
> I will address your email in more detail later, but I 
> will like to
> make a quick remark.
>
> Doyen is created using Linux Live Scripts: 
> http://www.linux-live.org/
>
> In the documentation we have this:
>
> "1) persistent changes
> Use 'changes=...' boot parameter to specify persistent 
> changes
> directory or file. If a directory is used, eg. 
> changes=/some_dir/ and
> the /some_dir/ is found on some partition on your disk, 
> then all the
> changes made to the root filesystem will be saved to that 
> directory.
> This works even if /some_dir/ is on NTFS or VFAT, thanks 
> to posixovl
> overlay (an userspace filesystem, already included). 
> Important note:
> if you plan to save changes on VFAT, make sure to modify 
> your
> distribution's shutdown scripts. It must not execute 
> killall, else
> posixovl is killed and everything is wrong. Instead, call 
> the cleanup
> script from /mnt/live/cleanup. If a file is specified for 
> the changes
> boot parameter, eg. changes=/path/file.dat, and the file 
> has a valid
> filesystem inside, then the file will be loop-mounted and 
> changes
> written to it. You may also use changes=/dev/sda1/path/ 
> and
> changes=/dev/sda1/path/file.dat ... to specify particular 
> device where
> to look for. Other devices will be skipped (will not be 
> even
> mounted)."
>
> You make want to give it a try. I will try to document 
> all this later
> on (once I get to test it
> myself.).
>
> Thank you for the feedback.
>
> Alfredo

William Sit, Professor Emeritus
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