I'm trying to debug debian bug #567337 -- I've narrowed it down to this use case, which fails on amd64:
/sbin/mkfs.msdos -i deb00001 -C boot.img 244736
mdir -i boot.img ::
(the -i deb00001 is only to make the image invariant, otherwise a few
bytes change in the generated file).
What i've found is that the image that is created has sha1sum
9d8660bf8ba8ee478b267b69e52b4d589ebffd55, which is identical to the
image created by version 3.0.8 mkfs.msdos on i386.
But "mdir -i boot.img ::" does not fail when invoked in the same way, it
reads it successfully, saying:
Volume in drive : has no label
Volume Serial Number is DEB0-0001
Directory for ::/
No files
250 347 520 bytes free
This suggests that the bug might might be in mtools, since it behaves
differently on different architectures against the same image.
I'm still looking into this to see if i can learn more.
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