[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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