Good news. i managed to compile a minimal x86 and install it successfuly from a cd. i had to do a downgrade at udev but i will not post yet the thing untill i try with the current svn udev. i did update first the svn tree to be sure that i have the latest quirks and changes.
keep you posted, Iulian > HI, > > yes with new udev versions it is annoying that they use even more > state-of-the-art glibc and kernel features, macros, bits, that fail with > dietlibc. Not using dietlibc increases the initrd significantly. I just > fixed mkinitrd to work with glibc dynamic .so for lib64 systems, > > René > > On Oct 15, 2013, at 9:47 , [email protected] wrote: > >> Hi Rene, >> >> I will continue the search because i think that there are also other >> packages that break the build. one of them is udev which is ...messy. i >> did not find yet a way of fixing it but i will post my patches as soon >> as >> i find a comfortable solution and a reliable reproducible way of >> upgrading. >> >> it takes a lot of work but the outcome is near :) >> >> regards, >> >> Iulian >> >> >> >>> Hi Iulian, >>> >>> thank you so much! Committed revision 42116! >>> >>> Greetings, >>> René >>> >>> On Oct 14, 2013, at 14:17 , [email protected] wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> After scanning the last 3 hours i think that this is the issue we are >>>> experiencing >>>> >>>> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/kernel-3-10-0-won%27t-run-initrd-slackware-14-0-a-4175468404/ >>>> >>>> basically we need to enable in 3.10 CONFIG_BINFMT_SCRIPT=y. >>>> >>>> >>>> there are other posts that are around this similar issue but i will go >>>> with this one and try to put it in. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Iulian >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> yes, I know this fix-clean-build cycles. When I was still at >>>>> university >>>>> I >>>>> often did so at ROCK/T2 times for a week. Even configured the build >>>>> abort >>>>> to beep and wake me up at night, >>>>> >>>>> I just double checked, linux-3.11.x does update in an otherwise >>>>> working >>>>> VM >>>>> does not boot with the same error in my test VM, There must be >>>>> something >>>>> out of sync regarding kernel config and initrd. >>>>> >>>>> Greetings, >>>>> René >>>>> >>>>> On Oct 14, 2013, at 11:56 , [email protected] wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi Rene, >>>>>> >>>>>> i collected all the patches i applied over the last week and i will >>>>>> write >>>>>> a new doc on how to get up from 8.0 to 9.0 in 83 "easy" steps. I was >>>>>> just >>>>>> blowing some steam.... sorry. i know how much work you put in... but >>>>>> last >>>>>> days were filled with fix clean -cache -build and restart over and >>>>>> over >>>>>> to >>>>>> get all right. I was really hoping to see that T2 booting >>>>>> tonight.... >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi Iulian, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> yes, so am I after over a decade in the open source world. Things >>>>>>> are >>>>>>> broken rather more often than not, and than people can catch up to >>>>>>> fix >>>>>>> it >>>>>>> :-/ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I will take a look as well, I noticed I also got this kind of >>>>>>> failure >>>>>>> with >>>>>>> an in-system kernel update, so it looks something changed with the >>>>>>> kernel >>>>>>> and/or config (that is maybe some new config option is not set as >>>>>>> necessary for the initrd stuff, ). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Btw, from the change-log it should be obvious how much work I >>>>>>> personally >>>>>>> spent with T2: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> http://svn.exactcode.de/ChangeLog-t2 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I would really appreciate if others would contribute their changes >>>>>>> and >>>>>>> patches more often to keep things working more smoothly. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Greetings, >>>>>>> René >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Oct 14, 2013, at 11:27 , [email protected] >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Well, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> after almost a week of tinkering day and night with packages that >>>>>>>> refuse >>>>>>>> to update i managed to compile a basic version. Unfortunately it >>>>>>>> does >>>>>>>> not >>>>>>>> boot. i get Failed to execute /init >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> /bin/sh No Controlling TTY (open /dev/tty: no such file or >>>>>>>> directory) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> kernel is 3.10.12-dist and initrd appears to be correct. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> i am really dissapointed. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> well i'm trying for the last two days to build a workable from t2 >>>>>>>>> 8.0 >>>>>>>>> iso >>>>>>>>> to no avail. Downgraded some packages, tweaked some others but >>>>>>>>> still >>>>>>>>> cannot build. Thank you for your efforts. i will continue trying >>>>>>>>> to >>>>>>>>> build >>>>>>>>> since i have a big project based on this. Of course i will post >>>>>>>>> my >>>>>>>>> diffs >>>>>>>>> and tweaks and possible a new manual if i have time. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Regards, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Iulian >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> hi, >>>>>>>>>> i now try an build an 64bit live iso on current trunk. >>>>>>>>>> If build fine and boot i share the iso. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> 2013/10/3 <[email protected]> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> the current t2 live CD is still at version 8. I think it would >>>>>>>>>>> benefit >>>>>>>>>>> to >>>>>>>>>>> build a new CD image starting from 9.0 and put it on download . >>>>>>>>>>> It >>>>>>>>>>> was >>>>>>>>>>> hard >>>>>>>>>>> enough to build t2 from it last year, now it became harder. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Thank you, >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Iulian >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>>>>>> If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, send mail to >>>>>>>>>>> [email protected] with a subject of: unsubscribe t2 >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> http://exactcode.com | http://exactscan.com | http://ocrkit.com | >>>>>>> http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.de >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> ExactCODE GmbH, Jaegerstr. 67, DE-10117 Berlin >>>>> http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.de >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> ExactCODE GmbH, Jaegerstr. 67, DE-10117 Berlin >>> http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.de >>> >>> >> > > -- > ExactCODE GmbH, Jaegerstr. 67, DE-10117 Berlin > http://exactcode.com | http://exactscan.com | http://ocrkit.com | > http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.de > >
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