[pocket-linux] Problem Chapter 3: RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 4194304

[Eric Wanchic]

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From: pocket-linux-bounces at ufo.chicago.il.us
[mailto:pocket-linux-bounces at ufo.chicago.il.us]On Behalf Of David Horton
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 2:21 PM
To: Support for Pocket Linux Guide
Subject: Re: [pocket-linux] Problem Chapter 3: RAMDISK: incomplete write
(-28 != 32768) 4194304


>>
>> 3.3.3 -
>>   bash# ldd bash
>>     linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
>>     libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40034000)
>>     libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x40037000)
>>     /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux/so/2 (0x40000000)
>>
>
>linux-gate.so.1 is something that might be giving you problems.  I have not
encountered this library >>
>requirement when building BASH from source.  Is it possible that you copied
the /bin/bash that came with
>your distro rather than the one you compiled?  I think somebody else did
this once and it caused a
>similar problem.
>

I did an Bash# ldd /bin/bash. This is what it looked like:

   bash# ldd bash
     linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
     libreadline.so.4 => /lib/libreadline.so.4 (0x40034000)
     libhistory.so.4 => /lib/libhistory.so.4 (0x40060000)
     libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x40067000)
     libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40034000)
     libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x40037000)
     /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux/so/2 (0x40000000)


Yes, linux-gate.so.1 is a funny file I'm not 100% sure about. Before my
previous post on this, my websearch showed that it was a "phantom" file. So
naturally I am igonring it, but maybe I can't. hmm. Is there a way to
compile bash without it needing to link to linux-gate.so.1?

>> 3.3.4 -
>>   ...
>>   mkdir /mnt/lib/tls
>>   bash# strip --strip-unneeded -o /mnt/lib/libdl.so.2 /lib/libdl.so.2
>>
>>   bash# strip --strip-unneeded -o /mnt/lib/dl-linux.so.2
/lib/dl-linux.so.2
>>   bash# strip --strip-unneeded -o /mnt/lib/tls/libc.so.6
/lib/tls/libc.so.6
>>   bash# chmod +x /mnt/lib/*
>>
>>   bash# chmod +x /mnt/lib/tls/*
>>
>>
>
>Try putting all the libraries in /mnt/lib and don't create /mnt/lib/tls.
The dynamic linker, ld-linux,
>always checks /lib and /usr/lib directories by default.
>

Sorry, no go. interestng to note, I did a search on all three of these
libraries. There was only one instance of each except for libc.so.6. It
could be found in /lib, /lib/tls, and /lib/i686. Each were different sizes.
I tried copying the other from /lib, but still no go.

>> ------------------------
>>
>> I created a new floppy, formatted it, and coppied the image again, no go.
I
>> looked at the draft for v.3.0 and entered the grub prompt manually. Still
no
>> go.
>>
>> Google searching doesn't bring much that I can work with here. Any
>> suggestions on what to do next? Thanks
>>
>> Eric
>>
>
>I think once you fix the library problems it should work fine.
>
>Good Luck,
>Dave

Sorry, still no go :(

Other things I tried.
3.3.1 -
  bash# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram7 bs=1k count=64000 (as opposed to count
4096. Why? Every time I exported the image to ~/phase2-image, it would in
and out 64000. This was also found as a ram disk value under menuconfig for
kernel 2.6.8.1)

Other -
Tried the RootDisk image for chapter 3. That did work. Is that using bash
3.0?

I'm braindead tonight. :P Hopfully there'll be other things to try tomarrow.
Thanks guys.


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