Re: Installer changes...

[Alex deVries <adevries@engsoc.carleton.ca>]

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.

As we speak, I'm debugging the initrd stuff in the kernel to sort out why
initial ramdisks don't get loaded.

- Alex