nic@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> How can I make a boot floppy, just in case I kill my whole machine,
> (or so that I can boot from floppy, delete my root filesystem and make
> it an xfs partition)?
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> '/sbin/mkinitrd initrd-2.4.2-XFS.img 2.4.2-XFS' just hangs and I can't
> get anywhere. A strace -f on that command shows it hangs with:
> [pid 13931] open("/dev/loop/0", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE
Odds are the reason for the hang is that mkinitrd requires the loopback
device, which is still broken in 2.4.2 (although patched & fixed in our
2.4.2-based xfs RPMS). So, you weren't necessarily doing anything
wrong. However, even if the loopback device worked, 2.4 + xfs is
getting big enough that fitting everything you need on a floppy is going
to be tight.
Russel's suggestion of using the rescue mode of one of our installer
images might be the easiest way to go at this point.
I haven't yet looked at Kelley's images, but thanks! Maybe you can
tackle making the Linuxcare rescue CD xfs capable! ;)
-Eric
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