Debugging glibc / startup stuff via a subhurd

2007-02-09 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! So, I got glibc 2.5 natively built with a number of patches and other ugly workarounds. It built completely, i.e. it didn't even break at the time where the new `ld.so' and libraries are being used for the first time when running `rpcgen' during the build. It even manages to run ``./testr

Re: subhurds (ext2fs) vs. sparse files

2007-02-09 Thread Roland McGrath
> Booting a subhurd from a file system that resides on a sparse file > currently fails like this: ``ext2fs: pseudo-root: panic: > get_hypermetadata: disk size (115085312 bytes) too small; superblock says > we need 419430400''. This comes from the size of the store reported by libstore. Try storei

subhurds (ext2fs) vs. sparse files

2007-02-09 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! Booting a subhurd from a file system that resides on a sparse file currently fails like this: ``ext2fs: pseudo-root: panic: get_hypermetadata: disk size (115085312 bytes) too small; superblock says we need 419430400''. I can see in the source code (`ext2fs/hyper.c') where this is stemming