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[Geert Stappers]

At 1:53 +0100 11/8/01, Cristian CONSTANTIN wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 09:33:49PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
>> At 18:49 +0100 11/7/01, Cristian CONSTANTIN wrote:
>> >On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 04:06:14PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
>> >> At 15:22 +0100 11/7/01, Cristian CONSTANTIN wrote:
>> >> >hi!

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>> >cristian: o.k. and how comes then that it boots the same kernel but with
>> >other root image; which I created myself??
>> >
>> Geert: That is usefull information you could have told before.
>> With the information I have now, seems you have
>> a working ( home brew ) root image
>> and a broken root image. A corrupt download???????
>>
>> <screenshot>
>> stappers at mir:~
>> $ file /pub/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/root.bin
>> /pub/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/root.bin: gzip
>> compressed data, deflated, last modified: Wed Jul  5 16:07:48 2000, max
>> compression, os: Unix
>> stappers at mir:~
>> $
>> </screenshot>
>
>cristian: well, here are some screenshots from me...
>
>crist at mobile60:~$ file /tftpboot/potato_root.bin
>/tftpboot/potato_root.bin: gzip compressed data, deflated, original
>filename, `potato_root', last modified: Wed Nov  7 16:47:49 2001, os:
>Unix
>crist at mobile60:~$ file /tftpboot/potato_root
>/tftpboot/potato_root: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data (mounted or
>unclean)
>
>let's see now if we can mount this root image...
>
>crist at mobile60:~$ mount | grep loop
>/tftpboot/potato_root on /mnt type ext2 (rw,loop=/dev/loop0)
>
>well, it's mounted all right; let's have a look at init:
>
>crist at mobile60:~$ file /mnt/sbin/init
>/mnt/sbin/init: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1,
>dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
>
>so, from my point of view everything looks quite o.k. still, the kernel
>does not boot ;-(
>
Geert: Thanks for showing us two different ramdisks.
We already known that one works at the other doesn't.

Maybe you showed only one ramdisk which can manually uncompressed and mounted.



Take a step back and look at your postings:
You provide (poor) information about what works
and complain about the not working part without providing detailed information.


Back to the probleem.
You told us that you can boot with your homebrewed ramdisk.
The downloaded root.bin fails.
I suggest you install the bootfloppies package, this dot deb does
build the root.bin. Modify the buildprocess so it is more equal
to your root.bin process and check where the error occures.

Please report your results.



An other request:
Please study http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

No hardfeelings




Kind Regards, Geert Stappers
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