Changes between Version 10 and Version 11 of FAQ

Timestamp:

Jan 22, 2007, 2:44:01 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

Bruno Cornec

Comment:

patch for mindi on OpenSuSE 10.2

FAQ

@@ -334 +334 @@
 
 == Q22/ Why doesn't mondorestore work correctly on OpenSuSE 10.2 ? ==
-  It seems that OpenSUSE 10.2 packaged mondo and mindi but did not include the now required mindi-busybox. Get it from ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/suse/10.2
+  First, It seems that OpenSUSE 10.2 packaged mondo and mindi but did not include the now required mindi-busybox. Get it from ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/suse/10.2
+  Second, ext2 capability isn't included in the OpenSuSE 10.2 kernel. Up to version 1.2.1 of mindi you may want to apply the following patch to /usr/sbin/mindi:
+{{{
+
+  --- /usr/sbin/mindi     2007-01-20 17:05:51.000000000 +0100
++++ mindi       2007-01-20 17:04:52.000000000 +0100
+@@ -2485,10 +2485,16 @@
+        echo -en "..."
+        dd if=/dev/zero of=$tempfile bs=1k count=$ramdisk_size &> /dev/null || Die "Not enough room for temporary ramdisk
+(TurnTgzIntoRdz)"
+        echo -en "..."
+-       mke2fs -b 1024 -m 1 -i 2048 -F $tempfile >> $LOGFILE 2>> $LOGFILE
++#
++#      Changed 2 lines to make mindi work on OpenSuse 10.2, which has no ext2 support buildin
++#      so we use minix for the initrd. Jacob Wiersma (jw) 20.01.2007
++#
++#      mke2fs -b 1024 -m 1 -i 2048 -F $tempfile >> $LOGFILE 2>> $LOGFILE
++       mkfs.minix  $tempfile >> $LOGFILE 2>> $LOGFILE
+        echo -en "..."
+        mkdir -p $mountpoint
+-       mount -t ext2 -o loop $tempfile $mountpoint || Die "Cannot loopmount $tempfile to $mountpoint! The reason may be
+missing support for loopfs or ext2 (or both) in the running kernel."
++#      mount -t ext2 -o loop $tempfile $mountpoint || Die "Cannot loopmount $tempfile to $mountpoint! The reason may be
+missing support for loopfs or ext2 (or both) in the running kernel."
++       mount -t minix -o loop $tempfile $mountpoint || Die "Cannot loopmount $tempfile to $mountpoint! The reason may be
+missing support for loopfs or ext2 (or both) in the running kernel."
+        echo -en "..."
+        old_pwd=`pwd`
+        cd $mountpoint
+}}}
+
+  ''Solution reported by Jacob Wiersma''
 
 == Q23/ My mondorestore disk doesn't boot how can I debug and get the log file ? ==