On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> I tested twice the miniroot on a spare IDE disk.
> Both time, the installation process ended after partition formatting:
>    Status: Command ended on signal
>    Command: /bin/mkdir -p /etc
...
> The hyperterminal log is available here: http://www.tumfatig.net/miniroot.zip

Wow.
I didn't expect this to work on the first try. :-)

I've tried booting the same image in gxemul and it didn't work, but even 
when giving it a kernel explicitly it hung during kernel startup, so I'm 
not sure if gxemul is good for this job.

Anyways: I'm afraid I'm not in a position to debug this, at least I don't 
really have an idea. Overwriting may be a problem, though, as this setup 
didn't use a ramdisk, so nuking things may indeed be bad for programs. :)

I guess I'll have to see if I can turn this into a miniroot with a 
ramdisk-based kernel instead. (Unless someone beats me to this... Uwe? :)


  - Hubert