Re: m68k machines not coming up after last update
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 11:11:19AM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> #763614 causes our machines to no longer boot, since they usually
> at most use klibc-utils to get small ramdisks. AIUI, the “fix” is
> to install busybox or busybox-static. This is not enough, you have
> to run “update-initramfs -u” manually afterwards. Then, copy out
> the initrd to the host OS filesystem (VM host for ARAnyM; AmigaOS,
> TOS, or MacOS otherwise). A reboot with the newly generated initrd
> works for my VMs.
Seems to be the issue that I stumbled into as well, thanks for digging
up a solution to the problem!
I will test whether just installing busybox, busybox-static and
calling "update-initramfs" will fix the issue for me and report back.
> SCNR but to note that mksh has a realpath builtin and compiles
> cleanly with klibc.
Yes, but unfortunately, most people agreed on using bash and often you
have no other choice but to use it. I'd also rather use zsh.
Adrian
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