[BRLTTY] Does the rhmkiso script work for anyone at all?

Nicolas Pitre nico at cam.org
Tue Mar 7 10:37:46 EST 2006


On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Mario Lang wrote:

> Mario Lang <mlang at delysid.org> writes:
> 
> > The FC4 boot.iso uses the "newc" cpio format, rhmkiso
> > forces the oldc format.
> > When using the 3.7.2 tarball and the 3.7.2 version of rhmkiso,
> > this, and the fact that the ramdisk size seems too small
> > prevent the resulting cd from booting, we get a kernel panic, unable
> > to mount root fs.
> 
> Correction, I *think* what actually happens is that FC4 uses initramfs
> instead of initrd (guessed).

But a relatively recent version of the rhmkiso script handles that just 
fine.

And yes, the script worked beautifully for me at least.


Nicolas


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