Re: m68k boot-floppies

[Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 03:57:58PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > Argh, I am becoming old... major problem:
> > >  couldn't create a loop device for /Instmnt/Debian-2.2/amiga/images-1.44/rescue.bin
> > > is this a kernelproblem (should have loop support) or a filesystem problem
> > > (Instmnt is amiga FFS Intl, read only AFAIK)?
> > 
> > The boot floppies are broken in this aspect, they need loop support to be
> > built as module, so if you have them in the kenrel, they are not happy.
> 
> Huh?? I think the kernel requires loop compiled in and not as a module -
> the kernel image is extracted from rescue.bin by loop mount before the
> modules are loaded from drivers.tgz.

Well, yes, but at least one version of boot floppies needed loop built as
module to _build_ the boot floppies. Don't know if it is fixed.

Sure later one you needed loop built in the kernel, so you are forced to have
two kernels, one with modular loops to build the kernel, the other with
builtin loop to boot from :(((

btw, does it not make more sense to install the drivers directly before
unpacking the kernel from rescue.bin ? anyway, rescue.bin don't make any
sense, at least on amiga/apus, don't know what happens for the m68k subarches.

Friendly,

Svne LUTHER