making boot images

Hi!

I'm a newbee at development list.
I need to correct "master" script in initrd especially for tftpboot.
First case:
I was try to extract/modify/pack the initrd
  /wrk$ mkdir img
  /wrk$ cd img
  /wrk/img$ cpio -id < ../initrd.000
I was modify the "etc/master" script at line 230 as it recommend
  229: z_opts=$(get_cmdline_param z_opts)
  230: [ -n "$z_opts" ] \  instead  [ -n "$z_opts" ] && z_opts=${z_opts#*=} \
  231:     && mount_opts="$mount_opts,$z_opts"
Pack a new initrd
  wrk/img$ cpio -H newc -o > ../initrd.001

Boot was OK (I can append option ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) but when everything
was copied and starts the windows installer, it said that wrong *.INF file
setup will be aborted. :( I was compare two initrd and there have
different size (the new is shorten about 3 KB). (I was restore the
"master" script the result is same)

OK Lest get other way - make whole thing. I'm using Debain Lenny (as I
have seen I'm not alone :) "make download" goes well. But (after download
several additional packages - I have use near minimalistic console
installation) always stuck on building glibc-2.11.1:

mawk: scripts/gen-sorted.awk: line 19: syntax error at or near ]
mawk: script/gen-sorted.awk: line 19: runaway regular expression /,
"",subd...

(mawk is an awk alternate in Debian Lenny - may be is it the problem)
After make complain about "abi-versions.h", what of course does not
generated.

Some could point me what could be wrong, I do not thing that the script
really has a bug or broken.

Sincerely

  tovis





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