error building boot-floppies

[Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>]

Can someone please explain this to me?

When i try to build boot-floppies from cvs, safe.sh dies about 80% of the
time. The error i get is:
/dev/loop3: This doesn't look like a FAT filesystem
/dev/loop3: Sector sizes other than 512 not supported

The commands being run immediately before it dies are:
+ cp resc1440.bin resc1440-s.bin.tmp
+ /sbin/losetup /dev/loop3 resc1440-s.bin.tmp
+ syslinux -s /dev/loop3

so.. i tried doing it by hand:
samwise[19:58] boot-floppies% sudo /sbin/losetup -d /dev/loop3                
samwise[19:58] boot-floppies% sudo /sbin/losetup /dev/loop3 resc1440-s.bin.tmp
samwise[19:59] boot-floppies% sudo syslinux -s /dev/loop3
/dev/loop3: This doesn't look like a FAT filesystem
/dev/loop3: Sector sizes other than 512 not supported

hmm, ok... but then:
samwise[19:59] boot-floppies% sudo diff resc1440.bin resc1440-s.bin.tmp 
samwise[20:00] boot-floppies%         <no differences>
samwise[20:00] boot-floppies% sudo losetup -d /dev/loop3               
samwise[20:01] boot-floppies% sudo losetup /dev/loop3 resc1440.bin 
samwise[20:01] boot-floppies% sudo syslinux -s /dev/loop3
samwise[20:01] boot-floppies%         <no errors>

i'm very confused....

i also have problems building the root disks. it dies in rootdisk.sh also
with errors about 512 byte sector sizes....

ii  syslinux        1.48-1         Bootloader for Linux/i386 using MS-DOS flopp

samwise[20:01] boot-floppies% uname -a                                 
Linux samwise.tausq.org 2.3.18ac10 #1 SMP Tue Dec 14 18:26:02 MST 1999 i686 unknown

(i've been using this kernel for b-f builds before without problems)

randolph
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