<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hi,</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> I
am trying to build a bootcd with Kernel 2.6.17.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">After a minimal install the system was
patched to the latest. I then installed bootcd and bootcd-mkinitrd. When
bootcdwrite is performed I get a lot of "did shrink" errors for
the /sys filesystem.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>--- Creating CD-Image ---</i></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>Size of boot image is 4 sectors ->
No emulation</i></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>mkisofs: File '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.0/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/power/state'
did shrink.</i></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>exit=255</i></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>--- OUTPUT from <mkisofs -graft-points
-R -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size
4 -boot-info-table -o /var/spool/bootcd/cdimage -x /proc -x /var/spool/bootcd
-x /var/log/bootcdwrite.log -x /etc -x /var -x /tmp -x /dev -x /home -x
/root -x /etc/mtab -x /etc/cron.daily/find -x /etc/cron.daily/standard
-x /etc/fstab -x /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key -x /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
-x /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub -x /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub -x /usr/share/bootcd/bootcd-run.lib
/=/ /=/var/spool/bootcd/changes /home.ro/=/home /root.ro/=/root /var.ro/=/var
/etc.ro/=/etc /dev.ro/=/dev> ---</i></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>mkisofs: File '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.0/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/power/state'
did shrink.</i></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>exit=255</i></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> An image of 16Mb is then created
and is junk.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I realised if you mount the /dev/sda1
on /mnt/tmp and change the bootcdwrite.conf then the whole process completes
without issue (>?) and I get an image that looks a better size. During
the build you get these warnings:</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>mkisofs: Warning: Directory loop
(/mnt/tmp/var/spool/bootcd/changes/proc dev: 801 ino: 265749).</i></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>mkisofs: Warning: Directory loop
(/mnt/tmp/var/spool/bootcd/changes/sys dev: 801ino: 265750).</i></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>mkisofs: Warning: Directory loop
(/mnt/tmp/var/spool/bootcd/changes/ram1 dev: 801 ino: 265751).</i></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>mkisofs: Warning: Directory loop
(/mnt/tmp/var/spool/bootcd/changes/ram2 dev: 801 ino: 265752).</i></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>mkisofs: Warning: Directory loop
(/mnt/tmp/var/spool/bootcd/changes/tmp.ro dev:801 ino: 265765).</i></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>mkisofs: Warning: Directory loop
(/mnt/tmp/var/spool/bootcd/changes/etc.ro dev:801 ino: 265766).</i></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>mkisofs: Warning: Directory loop
(/mnt/tmp/var/spool/bootcd/changes/etc.ro/rcS.ddev: 801 ino: 265865).</i></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>mkisofs: Warning: Directory loop
(/mnt/tmp/var/spool/bootcd/changes/etc.ro/bootcd dev: 801 ino: 265870).</i></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>mkisofs: Warning: Directory loop
(/mnt/tmp/var/spool/bootcd/changes/etc.ro/cron.daily dev: 801 ino: 265878).</i></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>mkisofs: Warning: Directory loop
(/mnt/tmp/var/spool/bootcd/changes/etc.ro/ssh dev: 801 ino: 265885).</i></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>mkisofs: Warning: Directory loop
(/mnt/tmp/var/spool/bootcd/changes/dev.ro dev:801 ino: 265767).</i></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>mkisofs: Warning: Directory loop
(/mnt/tmp/var/spool/bootcd/changes/usr dev: 801ino: 265868).</i></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>mkisofs: Warning: Directory loop
(/mnt/tmp/var/spool/bootcd/changes/usr/bin dev:801 ino: 265869).</i></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>mkisofs: Warning: Directory loop
(/mnt/tmp/var/spool/bootcd/changes/usr/share dev: 801 ino: 265871).</i></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>mkisofs: Warning: Directory loop
(/mnt/tmp/var/spool/bootcd/changes/usr/share/bootcd dev: 801 ino: 265872).</i></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>mkisofs: Warning: Directory loop
(/mnt/tmp/var/spool/bootcd/changes/isolinux dev: 801 ino: 265890).</i></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The bootcdmkinitrd process appears to
go without problem, and I think it's going to work, however...</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">During the boot process, the first errors
I see are devfs errors. They are followed by problems finding files, then
terminating with no console access and "INIT: ID "?" respawning
too fast: disabled for 5 minutes" for each runlevel.</font>
<br>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>mount: Mounting devfs on devfs failed:
No such device</i></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>umount: Couldn't umount /devfs: Invalid
argument</i></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>running /scripts/bootcd</i></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>find: /usr/lib: No such file or directory</i></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>FATAL: Module <lots> not found</i></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>Starting the hotplug events dispatcher:
udevd.</i></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>Synthesizing the initial hotplug
events...done.</i></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...input:
PC Speaker as /class/input/input1</i></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>INIT: ID "?" respawning
too fast: disabled for 5 minutes</i></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">As far as I am aware there is no longer
any support for devfs, it has been replaced by udev. The DEVFS option in
the bootcdwrite.conf file is off and complains if you set it on.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Any help, advice, or failing that sympathy
in this would be greatly appreciated.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
John Adamson<br>
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