Re: Red X -- not quite gone yet...
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 09:19:28AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:41:32AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> >
> > On Monday, August 30, 2004, at 04:41 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
> >
> > >On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 08:23:28AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > >>On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 01:58:34AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>Sven Luther wrote:
> > >>>>Rick Thomas wrote:
> > >>>>>Is it possible the objcopy is corrupting it?
> > >>>>
> > >>>>This is indeed a possibility.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>I will disable this again for the 2.4 floppies, and we will see
> > >>>>tomorrow what
> > >>>>happens.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>That said, the 2.6 floppies are too big to work with miboot
> > >>>>without the
> > >>>>objcopy -O binary call, so we need to investigate this more in
> > >>>>detail.
> > >>>
> > >>>I downloaded the latest 2.4 floppy images, but it looks like you
> > >>>didn't get around to disabling the objcopy yet.
> > >>
> > >>Yeah, alioth and thus the d-i svn repo was dead yesterday. It is
> > >>up again, and i will remove it for tomorrow.
> > >
> > >Fixed, please try tomorrows floppy-2.4 builds.
> > >
> > >Friendly,
> > >
> > >Sven Luther
> >
> > Not yet... When I boot the ofonlyboot (and the boot) floppy, I get
> > the tuxmac icon for only a few seconds. The red X appears almost
> > immediately. When I looked at the filesystem, it has a zero length
> > zImage file, and no vmlinu* file. Commenting out the objcopy means
> > that there is no vmlinux.bin file for gzip to work on.
>
> Please try the (2.6) floppies at :
>
> http://people.debian.org/~luther/miboot/floppy-2.6-2004.08.31
>
> As well as the 2.4 floppies i will soon put there in a neighboor dir, these
> will be one objcopy-less build, as well as one build with the same trick as
> above (using the miboot.image kernel image).
The other one being :
http://people.debian.org/~luther/miboot/floppy-2.4-2004.08.31
And forthcoming :
http://people.debian.org/~luther/miboot/floppy-2.4-old-2004.08.31
Please try each three of them and report back.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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