Problem with dracut-modules-olpc-0.2.4

Esteban Bordón ebordon.uy at gmail.com
Thu Nov 19 10:17:33 EST 2009


great!

With the new version of dracut-modules-olpc (0.2.8) works fine, but XO boot
only if I hold down the ckeck button ('✓')


Esteban Bordon
Departamento de Sistemas - Plan Ceibal
LATU - Av. Italia 6201 - Montevideo, Uruguay
C.P. 11500
Tel: (598 2)601 5773 int. 210
Email: ebordon at plan.ceibal.edu.uy


2009/11/18 Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org>

> On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 12:51 -0200, Esteban Bordón wrote:
> > When I tried to decompress the initrd file I got the message
> >
> > gzip: ../initrd-2.6.30_xo1-20091109.2105.1.olpc.29eff8b.img:
> > unexpected end of file
>
> This suggests a problem with the way you are generating the initramfs
>
> > If I try in unsecure boot i get the same problem, the last messages
> > that screen show is
> >
> > dracut: Mounted root filesystem /dev/mtdblock0
> > Usage: /usr/libexec/initramfs-olpc/upfs.py SYSROOT NAME MODE
> > Failure condition in initramfs
>
> This is not the same problem, the screen contents are totally different.
>
> This is a bug I accidentally introduced in recent releases where booting
> from an unversioned filesystem doesn't work. It is now fixed in git. If
> you were to rebuild the XO-1 image as a versioned filesystem then it
> should work OK. Or you could just apply the fix:
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/dsd/dracut-modules-olpc/commit/?id=c946068bfb23ba0793d5e3fabcf14278c547b0f2
>
> I'll probably be doing a new dracut-modules-olpc release tonight which
> fixes this issue.
>
> Daniel
>
>
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