Re: test of 'compact' install with 20000614 CVS

[ferret@phonewave.net]

I was booting 'linux verbose debug' at the syslinux 'boot' prompt.
No install.bat here.

I just installed another machine with the same images, but using a
different installation method, and it did not have any problems.

totem: installing kernel and modules from already-mounted fs. As below, I
copied my entire boot-floppy working tree on to totem's 18GB hard drive
before wiping its IDE drives and installing to them. depmod complained
about not having /lib/modules/2.2.15-compact/modules.dep, since the
modules were installed into /lib/modules/2.2.15/

loki: installing kernel and modules from floppy. The modules were
installed into /lib/modules/2.2.15-compact and it was happy. loki did have
a problem with an unexpected floppy0 interrupt during boot.

I'll verify later on with loki (having a verbatim copy of the bf build
area and a partial manual extract) and try to grab the debug log this
time. I just think it's seeing 'foo/drivers.tgz' before
'foo/compact/drivers.tgz' and using the first in spite of being compact
flavour.

On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Petr Cech wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 02:26:40PM -0400 , Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > ferret@phonewave.net writes:
> > 
> > > I'm booting with the rescue and root 1.44MB diskettes. I have my
> 
> how? exact command line please. I made some changes to install.bat
> 
> > > boot-floppies CVS build copied onto an hard drive on the machine I'm
> > > installing on. I mounted the partition, switched over to vt2, and copied
> > > resc1440compact.bin into images-1.44/compact/rescue.bin and copied
> > > driverscompact.tgz into compact/drivers.tgz, and told dbootstrap to
> > > install kernel and modules from the directory with the build of CVS files.
> > > 
> > > I think what happened was that it used the drivers.tgz in the '.'
> > > directory instead of in './compact'. The kernel installed is
> > > 2.2.15-compact, but the modules are in /lib/modules/2.2.15/
> > 
> > Hmmm.... boot with the debug switch.  There is a bootarg also that you
> > need to use so it knows to use compact, I am pretty sure.
> > 
> > Is this a bug report? 
> > 
> > It's not necessarily the case that the modules should be
> > /lib/modules/2.2.15-compact/.  That string, '2.2.15' or
> > '2.2.15-compact' is based on what 'uname -r' output is.
> > 
> > I don't think this is actually broken in the boot-floppies, is it?
> 
> in fact there is (see the mesages from last week from me). The install.bat
> didn't supply flavor= option to the kernel and dbootstrap. It's fixed now.
> 
> 				Petr Cech
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