Bugs item #1426566, was opened at 2006-02-07 12:39
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>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Wont Fix
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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>Comment By: Bernard Li (bernardli)
Date: 2006-04-27 18:37
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Use si_prepareclient with a newer version of SystemImager
(3.6.x, 3.7.x) for now. si_mkbootpackage is being reworked
and will be included in future releases.
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Comment By: Bernard Li (bernardli)
Date: 2006-02-07 13:48
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Can you try the following development version of SystemImager:
http://www.bcgsc.ca/downloads/oscar/systemimager/
Also, use si_prepareclient instead of si_mkbootpackage - run
it with --norsync and it won't mess up your settings, the
resulting bootpackage should be useable.
The UYOK code in si_prepareclient is more up-to-date than
si_mkbootpackage. si_mkbootpackage is the correct tool to
be used, but it needs to be fixed first so use
si_prepareclient for now...
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