Debian bug report logs - #1520 mkboot won't make a boot floppy Package: miscutils ; Reported by: Bill Mitchell ; 30 days old. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From pixar.com!bruce Sun Oct 1 13:54:50 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0szVPO-000H19C; Sun, 1 Oct 95 13:54 PDT Received: from mongo.pixar.com by pixar.com with SMTP id AA06545 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Sun, 1 Oct 1995 13:54:31 -0700 Received: by mongo.pixar.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0szVPL-000GupC; Sun, 1 Oct 95 13:54 PDT Message-Id: To: Bill Mitchell , debian-bugs@Pixar.com Cc: bruce@Pixar.com Subject: Re: Bug#1520: mkboot won't make a boot floppy In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Oct 1995 12:16:44 PDT." Date: Sun, 01 Oct 1995 13:54:47 -0700 From: Bruce Perens Actually, mkboot did try to rdev the floppy, but it wrote the floppy to fd0 and ran rdev on fd1. I'll fix that, and the pathnames. Bruce ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Bruce Perens : Extra info received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Information forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1520 ; Package miscutils . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From mdd.comm.mot.com!mitchell Sun Oct 1 12:16:53 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0szTsb-0005mpC; Sun, 1 Oct 95 12:16 PDT Received: from motgate.mot.com by pixar.com with SMTP id AA03489 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for bruce@mongo.pixar.com); Sun, 1 Oct 1995 12:16:32 -0700 Received: from pobox.mot.com (pobox.mot.com [129.188.137.100]) by motgate.mot.com (8.6.11/8.6.10/MOT-3.8) with ESMTP id OAA03192; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 14:16:49 -0500 Received: from mdd.comm.mot.com (mdisea.mdd.comm.mot.com [138.242.64.201]) by pobox.mot.com (8.6.11/8.6.10/MOT-3.8) with SMTP id OAA12327; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 14:16:48 -0500 Received: from bb29c.mdd.comm.mot.com by mdd.comm.mot.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13792; Sun, 1 Oct 95 12:16:46 PDT Received: by bb29c.mdd.comm.mot.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA19695; Sun, 1 Oct 95 12:16:45 PDT Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 12:16:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Mitchell X-Sender: mitchell@bb29c To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Cc: bruce@pixar.com Subject: mkboot won't make a boot floppy Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII PACKAGE: miscutils VERSION: 1.3-2 Several problems. Some major. Some have been reported previously. 1. mkboot won't make a boot disk on 0.93r6. It tries to dd /boot/vmlinuz to the floppy, and that file does not exist in 0.93r6. 2. It looks like it'd likely make an unusable boot disk after a kernel rebuild. It presumes that the hard drive kernel image is rdev'd correctly. Are we sure that a kernel rebuild will produce a properly rdev'd image? Lilo doesn't have a problem with improperly rdev'd images, but they won't work if copied to a floppy. 3. The "Do you want to make the system bootable now?" prompt is badly worded, IMHO. It follows a message saying that the user must either make a bootable floppy diskette or re-run LILO. It's not really clear that answering this question "y" won't re-run LILO. As it happens, I dodn't want to run LILO when I ran mkboot, and didn't feel good about answering 'y" to this question. 4. It says "In order to use the new kernel image you have just installed ...". This doesn't belong in mkboot. Some users will run it just to make a boot floppy on a system which has not recently had a new kernel image installed. I think this stuff comes from mkboot being invoked from the image package postinst, but the "new kernel image" stuff belongs in the image package postinst, not in mkboot. mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Bill Mitchell : New bug report received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1520 ; Package miscutils . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov