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
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