[pocket-linux] 5.3.7 problem fixed ...

[David Horton]

Rainer wrote:
> thanks for the replies.
> 
> started the night off by formatting the PL boot disk! anyhow, it helps 
> to repeat stuff ...
> checked dmesg on the build system and sure enough it was loading counts 
> of 7000 for the ramdisks. passed on the "ramdisk=4096" to the kernel at 
> boot and that worked. remade image4 (e), yup the 5th times the charm!, 
> and everything worked like it's supposed to.
> 
> hoping to get to part 6 asap.
> 
> ciao.
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You might be able to avoid the problem by creating the rootdisk like this:

   bash# cd /
   bash# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram7 bs=1k count=4096
! bash# mke2fs -m0 b=1024 /dev/ram7 4096
   bash# mount /dev/ram7 /mnt
   bash# cp -dpR ~/staging/* /mnt
   bash# umount /dev/ram7
! bash# dd if=/dev/ram7 of=~/phase7-image bs=1k count=4096
   bash# gzip -9 ~/phase7-image

I put exclamations in front of the lines that changed from the usual way 
of doing it.  I think that this will work regardless of whether the 
development system's kernel is set for a 4096 ramdisk size or the 7777. 
  If you try it and it works, let me know and I'll change it in the next 
revision of the guide.

Dave