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>> Bugs: |
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>> - Calculation of module dependencies fails at bootup |
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> Anybody have a log? |
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reason for this is that /lib/modules/${KV} is off a read-only |
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filesystem. It should not need to depmod that directory off |
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a livecd, as we won't have removed modules, etc. An alternative |
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approach would be to mount /lib/modules/${KV} on a tmpfs, |
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make sure the sub directories are symlinks to the read-only |
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fs, and copy the files like modules.pcimap to the tmpfs |
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so they are writable... |
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The first approach of just skipping the depmod if booting off |
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a livecd is the better approach. Also, this failure really |
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doesn't mean anything or do anything harmful, which is one |
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reason I didn't fix it in my baselayout. |
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>> - selection of keymap not possible |
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> We could add an alternative keymap script, that do that, and only |
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> install with USE=livecd ... anybody got a template, etc to start |
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> off? |
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this I don't have a clue about, so i'm not commenting on. |
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>> - Inability to halt/reboot (system just stops when all processes are |
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>> shut-down) |
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> Logs if possible? |
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The reason for this is quite simple. The livecd was built with |
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the cdfs/loop type as 'normal' which creates a loopback filesystem. |
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The loopback filesystem gets unmounted '_before_' everything else |
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is remounted readonly. But since the loopback is readonly as well, |
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it should never actually be being umounted before the reboot. The |
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actual / filesystem is a tmpfs with symlinks back to the mounted |
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loopback in this scenerio, so when you umount the loopback, the / |
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filesystem has symlinks to nothing, hence the hang. |
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This is not an issue if you use cdfs/loop type of zisofs or noloop |
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as there is no loop device to be umounted. |
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>> - Hardware-detection not included |
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> Sure will be nifty, but I guess catalyst should just install appropriate |
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> package and add to boot runlevel? Do not see any special handling, or |
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> am I missing something? |
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I had not gotten a chance to put together the livecd-tools package. |
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That script, as well as net-setup is in there. Basically, it will just |
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be a package that needs to be a dep in the livecd-stage1 packages, |
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and a quick one-liner in the default-runscript.sh will get it all |
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up and running, really a simple thing. |
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> As for 2.6 - think we can start to use module-init-tools as default for |
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> ALL profiles, or is there ARCH issues I am not aware of? Should just |
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> be needed to adjust the default virtual. |
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Right, as long as the current module-init-tools ebuild installs the |
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insmod.old for 2.4 kernels. I believe at one time it did not. |
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Even though I've stepped away from livecd stuff, I need to fix this |
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stuff to build my amd64 2004.0 release anyhow. I'd take care of this |
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since I'm more familiar with the problems if anyone wants me to. I can |
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do that this weekend. |
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-Brad House |
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brad_mssw@g.o |
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