On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 01:17:51PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Package: debian-installer > > or is it boot-floppies ?
Nope, is ok, boot-floppies was the old woody and before installer. > > > yeah, that's theoretics. but I tried 8 floppies (all new), writings them > > > once and reading (=booting) at least twice, none work. but after that, > > > when I used the old working boot floppy from jeremie, three of them > > > worked as root-floppies! > > Can you use compare to compare the written floppy to the image used ? > > just to be sure, I did this: > dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync ; sync > dd if=/dev/fd0 of=bootfd0.img bs=1024 conv=sync ; sync > diff -a boot.img bootfd0.img > > And that floppy doesn't boot,too. So your boot.img is broken. So I'll file a > bug. Ok, i don't know why though. Maybe i should check out the rsrce package. > Another thing I found out: whith your (broken) boot-floppy the floppy disc > gets ejected. If the boot floppy boots ok, there is the prompt saying I > should insert the root disk, but I have to eject the boot disk by myself. Cool, but we still do not know why. > > > > Maybe you could try loop mounting both root floppies, and compare them. > > Well, if the problem is with the root.img, knowing what the difference > > between the working image and the bad one is, would be a good idea. > > Since _this_ problem is fixed now, I don't have to do that anymore. Yep. > > > there are at least five days in between the creation of the images, I > > > expect a lot to have changed. > > Yeah, and packages used which are not in the debian-installer svn, and a > > different box used, and ... > > Uups? What packages not in d-i svn to you use ? Well, not all packages used in the build are coming from the d-i svn, some are plain debian packages comming from the archive, and naturally, the miboot package. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
