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From: Heiko Z. <he...@zu...> - 2006-04-07 13:44:23
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, April 7, 2006 03:15, Serge Leschinsky wrote: > Dear Heiko, > > > Thursday, April 6, 2006, 8:43:09 PM, you wrote: > >>> Heiko, what do you think about dynamical compiling busybox (anyway we >>> link it against glibc, not uclibc ) and adding modprobe from >>> modutils package (or building modprobe statically )? > >> The problem is the size of the initrd, when we start using libraries it >> might get tight on 32 MB systems. Compiling modprobe statically might >> help. > I made /sbin/test in the initrd file system and copied there insmode and > modprobe (symlink) from modutils package. I modified load_modules script > from "/sbin/modprobe $MODULE" to "/sbin/temp/modprobe $MODULE" as well. It > seems working correctly. Cool. So we have a workaround if BB doesn't work either in the new version. >>> The option "BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_INSMOD_KSYMOOPS_SYMBOLS" can >>> affect too. I'm going to check how this option inclusion/exclusion >>> affects modules loading. > >> There's also a newer version of busybox now. They contacted me just a >> couple days ago and said the mount problem may be solved (major rewrite >> of mount). So we could try updating busybox first. > Yes. I've seen it already. But modprobe doesn't work anyway ( > moreover it doesn't work at all in the clean 1.1.1 without > busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch). Where can I find this patch? > bb-1.1.1 was build without any problem. No script modification is > required. It looks like a good candidate for update. Cool We need to test the several boot options (CF card, USB, ISO, harddisk), since the newer BB had issues with some of them. - -- Regards Heiko Zuerker http://www.devil-linux.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkQ2bKcACgkQUcytMSbs+YU0IgCgiYu2mCHXoUSa+5JV8r5kUQAG j8YAn371Ek/pqCIGFnVWGf+TsLQ/wsX+ =erHn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |