Re: PowerPC Clone fails booting 2.6 d-i floppy

[Duane Cottle <duane@thecottles.net>]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:46:38PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> 
> the root floppy is (sometimes) a compressed /ext2 image
> 
> 	cp root.img /tmp/root.gz
> 	gunzip /tmp/root.gz
> 	mount -v -t etx2 -o ro,loop /tmp/root /media/floppy
> 
> or some such thing as that.
> 
> and (somteimes) a cramfs filesystem.
> 
> I don't know under what circumstances which is chosen.

Apparently it's not gzip, and I can't get the root.img floppy to mount 
as a cramfs type either.

I get 
hp:~# uncompress root.gz 
uncompress: root.gz: not in gzip format

and
hp:~# mount -v -t cramfs -o ro,loop /d-i/floppies-2.6/root-1021.img 
/floppy
mount: going to use the loop device /dev/loop0
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
       or too many mounted file systems

Hmmm... There must be some way to get the ramdisk content for BootX.

Anyone?

Regards,
Duane