Re: PowerPC Install

[Wouter Hanegraaff <wouter@openoffice.nl>]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 08:24:31AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:41:28AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I noticed that near the end, the script does an e2fsck of the
> > "root.img" file.  This seems to indicate that the image is
> > completely hosed, and e2fsck responds by (essentially) resetting it
> > to an empty ext2 filesystem.  This explains why the root.img is the
> > way it is (empty except for "lost+found").  But it doesn't explain
> > why the image filesystem is broken in the first place.

Well, now that we know this was caused by genext2fs, there's finally
some progress. I won't be able to test boot floppies from friday to
monday, but if the monday floppies are created with the fixed genext2fs,
I'll continue testing then.

> Do you know if the 2.6 floppies root.img suffer from the same problem ? Could
> you check ? 

If I remember correctly, the 2.6 images use a compressed ram filesystem
which I can't mount on any of my machines. I don't know if that's the
result of a hosed filesystem or that I need to reconfigure my kernel.
I couldn't mount them from a fresh sarge install with both the 2.4 and
the 2.6 kernel. 

Am I doing something wrong, could someone verify if the 2.6 floppies are
mountable?

Also, the 2.6 floppies only give a tux with red cross after a while,
is there any progress on that front?

Best regards,

Wouter