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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]