Re: /dev/null not a device in Linux boot image / initrd

Johannes Singer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.unattended.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Juan,

Sorry, it seems that it was my fault.
I retested the whole thing, and it seems I was creating the initrd wrong. /dev/null works 
with the initrd from the downloadable zip.

Apparently extracting the initrd, changing files and repacking it with
"find . | cpio -o -H newc > /unattended/linuxboot/tftpboot/initrd" 
does not work completely. I used the "five steps" instructions from the
wiki here: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/unattended/wiki/ModifyingTheBootDisk

Unfortunately the drivers are not copied with the stock initrd from the zip file, I will 
investigate further.

I am sorry to have bothered you.

I would like to make good for this by submitting installer scripts. :-)
What is the usual procedure for this?

Sincerely,
	Johannes


Juan Jose Pablos schrieb:
> Steven Blackery escribió:
>   
>> Inside devices.txt is:
>>
>> dev/null c 1 3
>>
>> which, if you are using mknod-cpio.pl with devices.txt as the input to append the devices to your initrd, should work...
>>
>>     
>
> Steven,
> that is exactly how is done it when building the iso image (I did not know):
>
>
> ## devices
> devices.cpio: misc/devices.txt
>          tools/mknod-cpio.pl < $< >| [email protected]
>          mv [email protected] $@
>
> ....
>
> initrd: devices.cpio .stamp-stage2
>          (cd stage2 && find . | cpio -H newc -o) >| [email protected]
>          cat devices.cpio >> [email protected]
>          mv [email protected] $@
>
> now,
> I have try both the iso image and the network image, and both have
>
> ls -l /dev/null
>
> crw------- 1 root 0 1,   3 Jan 18 17:19 /dev/null
>
> Johannes,
> are you building up the images from source?
>
>
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