Re: Red X -- not quite gone yet...

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:41:32AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> 
> On Monday, August 30, 2004, at 04:41 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 08:23:28AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> >>On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 01:58:34AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> >>>
> >>>Sven Luther wrote:
> >>>>Rick Thomas wrote:
> >>>>>Is it possible the objcopy is corrupting it?
> >>>>
> >>>>This is indeed a possibility.
> >>>>
> >>>>I will disable this again for the 2.4 floppies, and we will see 
> >>>>tomorrow what
> >>>>happens.
> >>>>
> >>>>That said, the 2.6 floppies are too big to work with miboot 
> >>>>without the
> >>>>objcopy -O binary call, so we need to investigate this more in 
> >>>>detail.
> >>>
> >>>I downloaded the latest 2.4 floppy images, but it looks like you 
> >>>didn't get around to disabling the objcopy yet.
> >>
> >>Yeah, alioth and thus the d-i svn repo was dead yesterday. It is 
> >>up again, and i will remove it for tomorrow.
> >
> >Fixed, please try tomorrows floppy-2.4 builds.
> >
> >Friendly,
> >
> >Sven Luther
> 
> Not yet...  When I boot the ofonlyboot (and the boot) floppy, I get 
> the tuxmac icon for only a few seconds.  The red X appears almost 
> immediately.  When I looked at the filesystem, it has a zero length 
> zImage file, and no vmlinu* file.  Commenting out the objcopy means 
> that there is no vmlinux.bin file for gzip to work on.

Argue, sure, will fix it again for tomorrow ...

Friendly,

Sven Luther