Re: cd 6.0.1 mount problem fromhd

[Bernd Blessmann <bibi@online.de>]

Charles Evans schrieb:
> On Monday 13 April 2009 06:08:05 pm Bernd Bleßmann wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I tried to copy the whole CD 6.0.1 to a hard disk partition an use the
> > fromhd boot option, but it didn't work (it could not mount the given
> > partition, tried all other ones and dropped me to the debug shell).
> >
> > I looked into the init in the minitrt an found out, that the "-o"
> > parameter to the mount command for reiserfs, ext3 and ext2 in trymount()
> > was missing.
> >
> > Attached is a patch - I hope it is helpfull.
> >
> > Thank you and greetings,
> >    Bernd
>
> Have you seen a script to unpack and repack the minirt.gz? 
> I would like to use your patch but I still don't grok the new cpio format.
> Thanks
> Charles

Hi Charles,

I use the following steps:
to extract:
 $ gunzip -c /media/sda5/boot/isolinux/minirt.gz > /tmp/minirt
 $ mkdir /tmp/miniroot
 $ cd /tmp/miniroot
 $ cpio -ivmd --no-absolute-filenames -I /tmp/minirt

miniroot fs is now in /tmp/miniroot

to repack:
 $ cd /tmp/miniroot
 $ find . | cpio -o -H newc > /tmp/minirt.new
 $ gzip -9 -c /tmp/minirt.new > /media/sda5/boot/isolinux/minirt.gz


Hope it helps. Greetings,
  Bernd