Um, your problem is here... # parted mkpartfs primary fat16 0.0 100%
FAT16 is limited to 2 gibibytes ( ;-) ) On Nov 13, 2007 12:01 AM, Peter Skogström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I have done some tests with doing a customized partitiontable in > lh_binary_usb-hdd, but I got trouble when aufs starts if I have an image > over 2000MB. > > The usb-hdd image boots nice, but when reaching > > Begin: Mounting root file system... ... > aufs 20070924 > loop: module loaded > squashfs: version 3.2-r2 (2007/01/15) Phillip Lougher > attempt to access beyond end of device > hda1: rw=0, want=198357, limit=197265 > attempt to access beyond end of device > hda1: rw=0, want=198357, limit=197265 > SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failing reading block 0x1545d > SQUASHFS error: unable to read uid/gid table > > This for an 4000MB image. > > First I have an usb-hdd image that I know boots all good. That one is > 101M and and have exactly > a 196607 sectors FAT16 partition size > (the working image is built from the lh_binary_usb-hdd parted script > that says: > parted mkpartfs primary fat16 0.0 100% > > Then with the same config I do a lh_binary > and build my custom stick/image > > But for this custom image I use parted myself and the same size 101M . > For this its: > parted mkpartfs primary fat16 0 101 > > (the rest of the parted stuff is the same) > > Except for the size of the image. If the image is up to 2000MB it is > working but above I get this error. For example with > an 2000MB image the fat16 partition get the size 197265 sectors and it > works, but with 3000MB and 4000MB I have the same sector size its still > 197265 sectors. > > But now the above mentioned error starts and the "access beyond end of > device" offsets is getting larger if the image is larger. > For 4000MB its 198357 sectors 1092 sectors diff (the case shown above) > For 3000MB its 198233 sectors. 968 sectors diff > > Huh ? > > I think that an fat16 partition maximum is 2000MB but in this case its > just the image that is bigger not the fat16 partition at all. Is there > some hardcoding with aufs that I have missed ? > > Anyone having a clue. > > regards > //Peter > > > > > -- > > bitrunner > > 0708-460260 > Andra Långgatan 28 > 41327 Göteborg > Sweden > > _______________________________________________ > debian-live-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel > -- Best Regards. Please keep in touch. _______________________________________________ debian-live-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
