RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with mkautoinstallcd tmpfs

[Bernard Li]

Trimming my response so it goes through... From: Bernard Li Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 11:26 To: 'sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with mkautoinstallcd tmpfs If you want to work around it, modify si_mkautoinstallcd.   It's still weird that it doesn't work for you.  Can you show me the output of 'rpm -qa | grep systemimager'?   Also, are you on x86_64 or i386?   I tested it on i386, perhaps you are on x86_64 and there is a bug in the code?   Cheers,   Bernard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of B. Erdelyi Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 11:20 To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with mkautoinstallcd tmpfs Hi Bernard,   Checked the CD's isolinux/syslinux.cfg, tmpfs values are not being appended.  For each LABEL systemimager, kernel, linux and boel the APPEND entry contains the same line:   APPEND vga=extended initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/ram   I just issued the following commands:   si_mkautoinstallcd --flavor standard --append "tmpfs_size=2G tmpfs_nr_inodes=2000" --out-file test1.iso and si_mkautoinstallcd --append "tmpfs_size=1g" --out-file test2.iso   Neither one created a correct syslinux.cfg.   In reference to the 3.6.3 RPM build it has a date of Tue 10 Jan 2006 on host chip03.bcgsc.ca.   It seems like I suspected that the tmpfs parameters are not being passed on.  Now I see that this is happening at the mkautoinstallcd step.   Is there a script that I can modify to correct this as a quick temporary fix?   Thanks, Bela     Hi Bela:   Can you check the resulting CD's isolinux/syslinux.cfg to make sure that the append statements are actually there?  It should look something like: LABEL systemimager KERNEL kernel APPEND vga=extended initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/ram tmpfs_size=2G tmpfs_nr_inodes=2000   I just tested my 3.6.3 RPMs and I can specify the tmpfs size without any problems, the command I used was:   si_mkautoinstallcd --append "tmpfs_size=2G tmpfs_nr_inodes=2000" --out-file /tmp/test.iso   What's the build date of your 3.6.3 RPMs, mine are: Mon 09 Jan 2006 09:31:01 PM PST   Cheers,   Bernard