On Friday, August 13, 2004, at 09:53 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Can you please retry the miboot boot floppies tomorrow ? I fixed the daily-builds to rebuild the actual miboot floppies.
Now, the only problem remaining would be the root floppy being too big, and
the actual 2.6 kernel based miboot floppies.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
Hi Sven!
Sorry for the delay on getting this done.
I downloaded the boot and root (and other) images from
http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc-small/floppy/
See appendix 1.After some fooling around with a dirty floppy drive and some poor quality floppy disks (I *hate* dealing with floppy disks! The floppy drives on Old Macs are almost invariably in poor shape. This is one reason I strongly recommend that people use BootX instead if they have the option.) I eventually succeeded in writing (and verifying) the images to physical floppies.
First observation:
The root image is larger than (1474560=1440*1024) bytes, so dd gets an error trying to write it to /dev/fd0. See appendix 2.
Second observation:
When I loop mount the root.img, all the stuff necessary for booting seems to be there (confirmed later by actually booting off of it) See appendix 3.
Third observation:
I booted from the boot floppy. It read the floppy, did the normal kernel initialization stuff and finally ejected the boot floppy with the message "Insert root floppy"..."press ENTER". Which I did. It printed "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0" then read for a while then stopped reading (no noise from the floppy drive). And it hung. I gave it several minutes. Nothing happened. No error messages on the console -- nothing. See my next opservation for one possible explanation of this behavior.
Fourth observation.
When I uncompress root.img and loop mount it, there is nothing there (just a "lost+found" directory)! Where did the contents of the initrd go? And, if it doesn't have anything in it, what excuse is there for it being so large? See appendix 4.
Hope this helps!
Rick
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Appendix 1
Index of /~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc-small/floppy
Name Last modified Size Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Parent Directory 07-Jul-2004 00:25 - asian-root.img 15-Aug-2004 21:06 1.2M boot.img 15-Aug-2004 21:06 1.4M cd-drivers.img 15-Aug-2004 21:06 1.4M net-drivers.img 15-Aug-2004 21:06 1.4M ofonlyboot.img 15-Aug-2004 21:06 1.4M root.img 15-Aug-2004 21:08 1.4M ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apache/1.3.26 Server at people.debian.org Port 80
Appendix 2
$ cd /tmp/DebianFloppys/ $ ls -lA total 12860 -rw-rw-r-- 1 rbthomas rbthomas 1474560 Aug 16 00:10 boot.img -rw-rw-r-- 1 rbthomas rbthomas 1467392 Aug 16 00:12 cd-drivers.img -rw-rw-r-- 1 rbthomas rbthomas 1467392 Aug 16 00:12 net-drivers.img -rw-rw-r-- 1 rbthomas rbthomas 1474560 Aug 16 00:13 ofonlyboot.img -rw-rw-r-- 1 rbthomas rbthomas 1514521 Aug 16 00:10 root.img $
Appendix 3
# cd /tmp/DebianFloppys/ # mount -t hfs -o loop boot.img /mnt/floppy/ # ls -lAR /mnt/floppy/ /mnt/floppy/: total 1166 dr-xr--r-- 2 root root 8 Aug 16 2004 .finderinfo dr-xr--r-- 2 root root 8 Aug 16 2004 .resource -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 300 Aug 16 2004 .rootinfo -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 16 2004 Finder -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 16 2004 System -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 1193284 Aug 16 2004 zImage
/mnt/floppy/.finderinfo: total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 300 Aug 16 2004 Finder -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 300 Aug 16 2004 System -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 300 Aug 16 2004 zImage
/mnt/floppy/.resource: total 78 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 16 2004 Finder -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79593 Aug 16 2004 System -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 16 2004 zImage #
Appendix 4:
# cp root.img root.gz # gunzip root.gz # mount -t ext2 -o loop root /mnt/floppy # ls -lAR /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy: total 1 drwx------ 2 root root 1024 Aug 15 22:46 lost+found
/mnt/floppy/lost+found: total 0 #
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