Newer minimal install isos are still showing symptoms of empty /lib/firmware, and today I realized it's because catalyst is generating an fstab which mounts tmpfs at /lib/firmware so the real files underneath go "missing". Just commenting this line should be enough to make /lib/firmware work again. We may also want to evaluate whether the other 2 lines in fstab are necessary or useful to anyone at all, my installcd tests appear to work just fine with empty fstab. --- a/targets/support/livecdfs-update.sh 2014-01-22 18:15:45.799473785 -0600 +++ b/targets/support/livecdfs-update.sh 2014-01-22 20:22:14.011321334 -0600 @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ # fstab tweaks echo "tmpfs / tmpfs defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab -echo "tmpfs /lib/firmware tmpfs defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab +#echo "tmpfs /lib/firmware tmpfs defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab echo "tmpfs /usr/portage tmpfs defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab # If /usr/lib/X11/xkb/compiled then make it tmpfs if [ -d /usr/lib/X11/xkb/compiled ]
I'm using the March 18th auto builded iso and encountered an empty /lib/firmware which causes wireless doesn't work. I would guess this bug is the reason why. So how do I fix it?
(In reply to Hao from comment #1) > I'm using the March 18th auto builded iso and encountered an empty > /lib/firmware which causes wireless doesn't work. I would guess this bug is > the reason why. > > So how do I fix it? After I ask the question on IRC #gentoo, username234 told me that I can unmount /lib/firmware and bang, problem solved. BTW, Ben Kohler, are you iamben on IRC?
This is fixed in git, getting some testing with some other bugfixes before a new release of catalyst starts producing new media. It will then have new livecd and stages up for download. http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/catalyst.git;a=commit;h=358f05d10873620f01eb6fa0be0baff076b476db
This is now in a released catalyst version and the fix has been in our autobuild isos for a while now, closing
