[RULE] Re: State of the RULE and Slinky-Files wanted

[C David Rigby]

Michael,
	I had a problem with slinky-v0.3.97.img for which I found a
work-around.  Please let me know if I did something goofy that caused
the problem in the first place.  Note that I have not done the obvious
stuff like downloading the tarball again!

	I unpacked the tarball and created the boot disk in the usual fashion
with dd (all files & directories relative to the slinky_devel
directory):

	as root:
	./makedisk.sh
	not root:
	dd if=slinky-v0.3.97/slinky-v0.3.97.img of=/dev/fd0
	
	When I booted the system (the computer named runaway in the testing
farm) with this disk, after the RAMDISK was loaded, I got an error
message to the effect that the system "could not open initial console."

	It turned out that the problem was that there was no /dev/console in
the root filesystem in the disk image.  The quick workaround was to
simply copy the /dev/* directory structure from slinky-v0.3.96.img to
slinky-v0.3.97.  After that, the system booted fine.  Details of the
workaround are shown below.

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1. Created mount points /mnt/loop0 and /mnt/loop1.
2. Mounted the respective bootdisk images with these commands:

	mount -o loop slinky-v0.3.96.img /mnt/loop0
	mount -o loop slinky-v0.3.97.img /mnt/loop1

3. Copied out the rootfs.gz files from each image into a working
directory:

	mkdir rootfs96
	mkdir rootfs97
	cp /mnt/loop0/rootfs.gz rootfs96
	cp /mnt/loop1/rootfs.gz rootfs97

4. Uncompressed them:

	gunzip rootfs96/rootfs.gz
	gunzip rootfs97/rootfs.gz

5. Moved the bootdisk images off of the loopback mountpoints and mounted
the root filesystem images:

	umount /mnt/loop0
	umount /mnt/loop1
	mount -o loop rootfs96/rootfs /mnt/loop0
	mount -o loop rootfs97/rootfs /mnt/loop1

6. Copied the /dev/* directory structure from '96 to '97:

	cp /mnt/loop0/dev/* /mnt/loop1/dev

7. Unmounted the root filesystem images:

	umount /mnt/loop0
	umount /mnt/loop1

8. Recompressed the '97 image:

	gzip rootfs97/rootfs

9. Mounted slinky-v0.3.97.img and copied rootfs.gz back onto it:

	mount -o loop slinky-v0.3.97 /mnt/loop1
	cp rootfs97/rootfs.gz /mnt/loop1

10. Unmounted the bootdisk image and wrote it to floppy:

	umount /mnt/loop1
	dd if=/slinky-v0.3.97.img of=/dev/fd0

It booted okay after that.

Thanks
CDRigby
cdrigby at 9online.fr

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 05:30, Michael Fratoni wrote:
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> On Sunday 24 August 2003 05:14 am, Ingo Lantschner wrote:
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> > This gives me some time to swith the custom-Slinky-CD (so called
> > vum:BOX) to french and make some additions. I already wrote to Michael
> > offlist, seems as if he is on holiday, because I would need the
> > development-files he once offered for Slinky 0.3.95.
> 
> I wish I was on holiday. ;)
> I've just been busy, sorry for the delay in answering mail. I've just 
> created a new tarball, and it is uploading now. It should be done in 
> about an hour.
> 
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/rule/slinky/slinky_devel-0.3.97.tar.gz
> 
> Let me know if you have any problems.
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