Bug#94435: [m68k] Extracting kernel from floppy image fails
Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; reported 2001-04-18
Severity: important
version: Potato mac m68k (busybox 2000.11.29-07:44+0000)
Problem: When installing to NFS root, a message mentioning special
handling of the installation images is shown, then mounting the images
fails.
Details: dbootstrap runs 'dd //path/to/images-1.44/rescue.bin > /dev/ram
2> /dev/null' and then 'mount -r -t ext2 /dev/ram /floppy', which fails
with an 'invalid argument'.
Running the dd command by hand in the shell, and leaving off stderr
redirection, I find that dd returns the usage message to stderr.
According to Joey (on #debian-boot) when I asked, the only thing he
could find referencing /dev/ram was:
extract_kernel.c: sprintf(prtbuf, "dd < %s/%s > /dev/ram 2>
/dev/null",Archive_Dir,diskimage);
which looks correct. So for some reason the current executable version
doesn't have the '<' in it.
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux tarot 2.4.3cc #3 Tue Apr 17 15:37:13 PDT 2001 i586
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