Bug 200111

Summary:	genkernel does produce busybox symlinks
Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects	Reporter:	Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) <rbu>
Component:	genkernel	Assignee:	Gentoo Genkernel Maintainers <genkernel>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-11-23 19:26:36 UTC

Genkernel, if used with --lvm, includes the busybox executable in its generated initramfs, but it misses to install its symlinks (ls -> busybox, for example), rendering created images unusable.

Comment 1 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-11-23 19:27:36 UTC

(tested with 3.4.9_pre6 in an Ubuntu chroot)

Comment 2 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-11-23 19:41:37 UTC

My latest x86 minimal 2007.1 pre-release livecd build has a kernel created with 3.4.9_pre9 and uses --lvm, and the busybox symlinks are there. Can you try to reproduce with _pre9?

Comment 3 Robin Johnson archtester

2007-11-23 20:35:47 UTC

If you use LVM, you should use _pre9-r1, so that LVM is properly built in the initramfs. Also, the symlinks are created in the initramfs when "busybox --install -s" is called inside linuxrc, you can't just unpack and expect them to exist.

Comment 4 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-11-23 20:38:02 UTC

Sounds like INVALID to me :P