Bugs item #1426566, was opened at 2006-02-07 20:39
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Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Patrick Dowler (pdowler)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: mkbootpackage makes huge initrd

Initial Comment:
Tried to use mkbootpackage on FC4, as follows:  
  
si_mkbootpackage  
--kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4   
--new-flavor xpc64  
  
Minor problem: got warning about untested xfs  
filesystem and it did not create anything. The 
xfs module is not loaded, but the test in 
build_loopfile seems to chose it anyway. I  
commented out the check and then it "worked",  
i.e. si_mkbootpackage said:  
  
Finished!  Your new boot package lives in:  
  
  /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/xpc64  
 
> ls -l /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/xpc64  
  
16805761 Feb  7 11:11 boel_binaries.tar.gz  
 5283546 Feb  7 11:11 initrd.img  
 1639539 Feb  7 11:11 kernel  
  
The initrd is 5MB compressed so I cannot make a  
bootable CD image (si_mkautoinstallcd fails when  
trying to copy it) because of the 2880 size limit.  
  
I gunziped and mounted the image (ext2 filesystem) 
and it looks basically the same as the original; the 
only thing I can think of is that the binaries 
in /bin and /sbin maybe are copies rather than 
hard-links (rsync command I found in the script uses 
-aHS though, so that seems unlikely) 
  
rsync version: rsync-2.6.4-3  
kernel: 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4  
SI: systemimager-client-3.4.1-1  
    systemimager-i386boot-standard-3.4.1-1  
    systemimager-common-3.4.1-1  
    systemimager-server-3.4.1-1  
 

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