[Devil-linux-develop] custom-cd failure

[John B. <sag...@gm...>]

Hi folks,

I've extremely hesitated to report something that did work for me and now is no
longer working. I did perform extensive testing which trashed a dozed CDs,
even rebooting.

I've seen failure 1.2.13 (I have other problems with the other versions).
The following seemingly impossible statements are true.

* I have pointed "./new" to a meaningful directory, and made a working
boot 1.2.13 CD
*  it is not a cd recorder issue as I can make bootable CDs from both the
   original boocd.iso image and a previous bootcdnew.iso image
   I do crank down to "speed=4", to be safe.
* I am no longer am able to make a working CD image using "custom-cd"
   with a meaningful or empty "./new"
  For my most recent attempt
   I created a fresh dir from the 1.2.13 586 SMP .tar.bz2 file
   created an empty ./new dir
   booted without configuration media
  it got past the "Do you want to boot without media [y/n]?"
  at some point, it started a very fast never-stopping scroll of


kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-9653, errno = 8

The messages during the creation process were:

alan devil-linux-1.2.13-i586-SMP # ./custom-cd
Enter location of existing CD drive or ISO image [./bootcd.iso] ->
Enter your new ISO image [./bootcdnew.iso] ->
Enter where to mount your CD/ISO [/mnt/devil] ->
Enter location of directory with new files [./new] ->
Enter temporary location to hold the files [./tmp20001] ->

cp: cannot stat `./new/*': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `./new/boot/*': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `./new/doc/*': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `./new/config/*': No such file or directory
cp: omitting directory `/mnt/devil/bin'
cp: omitting directory `/mnt/devil/boot'
cp: omitting directory `/mnt/devil/cd'
cp: omitting directory `/mnt/devil/cdrom'
cp: omitting directory `/mnt/devil/config'
cp: omitting directory `/mnt/devil/dev'
cp: omitting directory `/mnt/devil/doc'
cp: omitting directory `/mnt/devil/floppy'
cp: omitting directory `/mnt/devil/home'
cp: omitting directory `/mnt/devil/initrd'
cp: omitting directory `/mnt/devil/lib'
cp: omitting directory `/mnt/devil/opt'
cp: omitting directory `/mnt/devil/proc'
cp: omitting directory `/mnt/devil/rr_moved'
cp: omitting directory `/mnt/devil/sbin'
cp: omitting directory `/mnt/devil/share'
cp: omitting directory `/mnt/devil/shm'
cp: omitting directory `/mnt/devil/usr'
cp: cannot stat `./new/*': No such file or directory
Warning: creating filesystem that does not conform to ISO-9660.
genisoimage: Unexpected joliet directory length 1342 expected: 1346 ''


As far as the other distributions:
   I'd use 1.2.14, but the 3 minutes it takes to realize there are no
RAID partitions
      on my diskless system is something I'd rather avoid.
   I'd use 1.3.6, but eth0 is not working (on a separate post.)
   I think I had similar custom-cd  failure with 1.2.14 or 1.3.6.

Any suggestions about what is going on would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Chip