[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] livecd-iso-to-disk giving wrong directory path to extlinux
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Fri Mar 6 18:12:53 UTC 2009
On Thursday, March 05 2009, Warren Togami said:
> Warren Togami wrote:
>> There is a similar problem with vfat filesystems, where syslinux is a
>> path that does not exist, and mmove subsequently segfaults because it
>> doesn't know how to handle it. I'm working on that issue separately.
>
> The previous patch to make the extlinux code-path work is confirmed to work.
>
> The syslinux code path however is proving to be trickier. It appears
> that livecd-iso-to-disk is doing something wrong, then mmove via
> syslinux crashes. mtools itself is buggy in crashing here, but it
> appears to be livecd-iso-to-disk's fault. I am still figuring this...
With the path changes reverted (and thus, basically exactly what shipped in
F10), I still hit this. Going back to F10's mtools works fine. And
trying a newer version from upstream (4.0.9) seems to fix things also,
so I've bounced this over to the mtools maintainer to do an update
Jeremy
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