Re: m68k vs. d-i tc1 -- bummer, help needed
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 10:21:48AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> I think this may be genext2fs bug #232023.
>
> Preliminary testing seems to support this. If I create a filesystem using
> dd and ext2fs and copy a broken initrd to it via loopback: the new image
> seems to be fine.
>
> Which brings me to d-i, the mac/nativehd-initrd.gz and cdrom22-initrd.gz
> images are so afflicted. I plan on copying them to a fresh filesystem
> and testing them, but that doesn't help what's in the archive.
>
> Unfortunately, the only build workaround that I'm aware of requires
> root.
>
> dd
> mke2fs
> sudo mount -o loop
> sudo cp
> sudo umount
> gzip
>
> Ideas welcome.
Do you have enough space and kernel support to use cramfs as a
workaround?
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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