Bug#2816: boot-floppies have some small glitches

[bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)]

From: Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com>
> Package: boot-floppies
> Version: 1.1.1-3

> I had to add the line to basedisks.sh:
> chroot $B /etc/init.d/sysklogd stop
> before the line to umount /proc.

I think I need to go back to using an enivronment variable to tell
start-stop-daemon to not really start anything while I am building the
base. Running two copies of various daemons while building the base is
going to mess up our systems some day.

> I needed to add the line to rootdisks.sh to fix it:
> (modprobe floppy; exit 0)

You also need the msdos module in bootdisk.sh and the minix module in
rootdisk.sh . I think kerneld timing out is a bug, we'll just add modprobes
for now.

> modprobe complained:
> "No dependancy information for module /lib/modules/current/block/floppy.o"

New install.sh on the boot floppy will run depmod.

> Finally, since I ran ./makdisks.sh so often, I learned that the
> base_floppies are appended to when the script is rerun.

Oops. Will fix.

I'm happy that this is all the trouble you are having in building
boot floppies with the scripts. This was really arcane until recently.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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