Comment 0 for bug 609700

Hi

While testing the image Ubuntu Netbook pre-installed OMAP image (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-netbook/ports/daily-preinstalled/current/maverick-preinstalled-netbook-armel+omap.img.gz) in QEMU, it wouldn't boot.

QEMU's OMAP ROM emulatopm would complain about lack of boot data.

Comparing the Ubuntu images with Angstrom images, I saw that the Ubuntu images had the same disk partition type and meta-data, but the filesystem would differ: FAT32 in the case of Angstrom and FAT16 for Ubuntu.

I've loop-mounted an image (with kpartx), copied over the files in the FAT partition, and reformated it with mkfs.msdos -F 32. This allowed QEMU to boot and start the kernel from the modified image.

Oliver compared with the jasper-initramfs code, which uses -F 32, so it would seem safe to force -F 32 in debian-cd as well (it currently is unspecified, so mkdosfs picks FAT16 according to the size of the partition), however I recommend this to be tested on target hardware configurations.

Thanks.