make-live creates unusable binary.img

[neuhoff at mhccorp.com (neuhoff at mhccorp.com)]

I have retrieved the latest live-helper package from sid and then ran the 
command


	make-live --bootstrap cdebootstrap -d lenny --username usblive  -b 
usb-hdd --packages xorg xfce4

which resulted in a 'debian-live' directory containing, among other stuff, 
a 'binary.img' file. I copied the latter to an usb stick (/dev/sda):

	dd if=debian-live/binary.img of=/dev/sda

However, it resulted in an unbootable  partition. In particular, files 
like 'vmlinuz', 'initrd.img', 'syslinux.cfg' etc. weren't even there.

I assume that the 'debian-live/chroot' is stilled compressed into 
the 'debian-live/binary/live/filesystem.squashfs', as was the case in 
previous versions. I could manually add 'vmlinuz' etc to the usb-stick and 
run a 'syslinux /dev/sda1' command to make it bootable. I might as well 
create the 'live' directory manually on my usb stick and copy 
the 'filesystem.squashfs' into it. But what is the 'binary.img' good for 
then?

Hence my question: Is there a bug in 'make-live'? I'd hope for 'make-live' to 
create a bootable 'binary.img' where the user wouldn't have to worry about 
anything but copying the whole image to the usb-stick.

J.Neuhoff