From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id UAA878111 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 20:15:45 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id UAA14071 for linux-list; Mon, 18 May 1998 20:15:04 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from soyuz.wellington.sgi.com (soyuz.wellington.sgi.com [134.14.64.194]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via SMTP id UAA03517 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 20:14:58 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (alambie@wellington.sgi.com) Received: from wellington.sgi.com by soyuz.wellington.sgi.com via ESMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/940406.SGI) id PAA19735; Tue, 19 May 1998 15:13:47 +1200 Message-ID: <3560F8EA.789513D9@wellington.sgi.com> Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 15:13:46 +1200 From: Alistair Lambie X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05C-SGI [en] (X11; I; IRIX 6.5-BETA-1274425944 IP22) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex deVries CC: Alistair Lambie , linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: Installer changes... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Alex deVries wrote: > > On Thu, 14 May 1998, Alistair Lambie wrote: > > It stops right at the file /dev/need_disks_created. There are a bunch > > of errors before this. The /dev/need_disks_created file does not seem > > to get written to disk correctly....the e2fsck cleans it up by the looks > > of things. I guess there is something about the cpio that the installer > > doesn't like. > > Wow. I really messed it up badly somehow. > > I suspect it's having a problem writing a file that's 0 bytes long. Let > me repackage it, and make the file 1 byte. > No, this is not the problem. The problem is that the /dev directory is getting too big for 'installer' to handle. If I repackage the cpio after deleting some files from the directory all is well. Maybe we need to do a very minimal package of the files in the /dev directory and run some MAKEDEV's on first boot? > As we speak, I'm debugging the initrd stuff in the kernel to sort out why > initial ramdisks don't get loaded. > I think this is the way to go for the future...saves maintaining installer :-) Cheers, Alistair -- Alistair Lambie alambie@wellington.sgi.com Silicon Graphics SGI Voicemail/VNET: 234-1455 Level 5, Cigna House, M/S: INZ-3780 PO Box 24 093, Ph: +64-4-494 6325 40 Mercer St, Wellington, Fax: +64-4-494 6321 New Zealand Mobile: +64-21-635 262