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). Friendly, Sven Luther
