Problems uncompressing at boot
I successfuly compiled the boot-floppies (well no errors were
reported :-). I generated a CD with the rescue.bin (2.88) file,
and booted on it. It fails, saying it can't uncompress the file:
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-Booting 2.88 fd
Syslinux 1.48 1999-09-26
Loading Linux.............
Uncompresing Linux...
invalid compressed format (err=2)
--Sytem Halted
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It works fine when I use Adam's rescue file.
Here is what I have, when looking at the generated rescue.bin file:
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[root@eurythro boot]# file rescue.bin
rescue.bin: x86 boot sector, system SYSLINUX, FAT (12 bit)
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Mounting the file gives me the following:
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[root@eurythro /cdrom]# ll
total 1907
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 7680 Jan 1 1970 ./
drwxr-xr-x 33 root root 2048 Dec 1 00:10 ../
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 5860 Nov 30 20:27 ldlinux.sys*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 1032211 Nov 30 20:27 linux*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 827364 Nov 30 20:27 root.bin*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 75601 Nov 30 20:27 sys_map.gz
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Uncompressing root.bin, mounting it, and doing an 'ls' into it does
the following result:
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[root@eurythro /tmp]# gunzip root.gz
[root@eurythro /tmp]# mount root /floppy -o loop=/dev/loop2
[root@eurythro /tmp]# cd /floppy/
[root@eurythro /floppy]# ll
ls: dev: Input/output error
ls: bin: Input/output error
ls: etc: Input/output error
ls: floppy: Input/output error
ls: initrd: Input/output error
ls: instmnt: Input/output error
ls: lib: Input/output error
ls: mnt: Input/output error
ls: proc: Input/output error
ls: sbin: Input/output error
total 3
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 30 20:19 ./
drwxr-xr-x 33 root root 2048 Dec 1 00:10 ../
[root@eurythro /floppy]#
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Has anybody got this problem ? What could I have made wrong ?
Thanks,
Luc
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