Bug#358354: 0.56 incompatible with busybox 1.01-4?

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

tags 358354 pending
retitle 358354 0.56 wrong minor parsing
thanks

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Martijn Pieters wrote:
<snipp>
> FWIW: the same problem was observed with 2.6.16-1-686-smp.

yes it's an initramfs-tools bug.

> > cat /proc/cmdline
> auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=1606
> 
> (both on 2.6.16 booted with lilo and initramfs-utils 0.55b)

aha, yes lilo we parse wrongly the minor,
that's why mknod returns the usage arguments.
 
> Just in case this is helpful, after booting with 0.55b, /dev/root is:
> 
>   $ ls -la /dev/root
>   brw-r--r-- 1 root root 22, 6 2006-03-24 16:25 /dev/root

yes,
will fix with an upload today or tommorrow.

regards

-- 
maks


=== modified file 'a/scripts/functions'
--- a/scripts/functions	
+++ b/scripts/functions	
@@ -201,10 +201,14 @@
 		minor=${1#*:}
 		major=${1%:*}
 		;;
-	*)
+	[0-9][0-9][0-9])
 		minor=$((0x${1#?}))
 		major=$((0x${1%??}))
 		;;
+	*)
+		minor=$((0x${1#??}))
+		major=$((0x${1%??}))
+		;;
 	esac
 
 	mknod /dev/root b ${major} ${minor}