Bug#815164: check-missing-firmware can't mount fat32
Hi,
Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 08:29:37AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> >On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 08:43:13AM +0100, Laurent COOPER wrote:
> >> Thank you for enquiries
> >>
> >> I made the i386 boot key with a 1G usb key, using the dd command
> >>
> >> (dd if=debian-8.3.0....i386 of=/dev/sdb bs=4M)
> >>
> >> I next use fdisk to create sdb3 and made a fat32 filesystem. Copied on it
> >>
> >> - the missing firmware with the deb file
> >> - the missing firmware extrated from debfile in a /firmare subdirectory
> >
> >You did name the subdirectory /firmware I would hope.
> >
> >I think I always use the root directory option rather than /firmware,
> >but according to the user guide either should work.
>
> Yup, I was reviewing and testing the code in this area last night and
> I can verify that.
>
> >> check-missing-firmware could not load the ipw2200-bs.fw
> >>
> >> I thought it was possibly because it was on sdb3 and not sdb1
> >>
> >> I could mount manually the filesystem with mount and read sdb3 although
> >>
> >> I copied the same file on a quite large usbstick (4G) with FAT32
> >> filesystem. All was this time on sdc1
> >>
> >> didn't work neither
> >>
> >> Finally , after reading that fat was a first stage supported, but not
> >> necessaraly fat32, i copied the files again, this time on a small 512M
> >> usb key in FAT.
> >>
> >> This third time it worked.
See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=740503
for a similar report regarding firmware loading.
Holger
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