Re: Fedora 7 based Systemtap LiveCD for i686 machines

[Mike Mason <mmlnx at us dot ibm dot com>]

Moving this thread to the systemtap list...

William Cohen wrote:
> Mike Mason wrote:
> > Hi Will,
> >
> > I tried the live CD on another Windows-only laptop and had no problems 
> > rebooting back to Windows.  I did it several times.  I guess we 
> > shouldn't worry about it for now.
>
> Hmmm. All the machine I have are dual boot, so I can't verify this 
> problem. I guess we won't worry about this.

For those new to this thread, I had a problem a couple times when I ran a live CD on a Windows-only system.  The live CD ran fine, but I couldn't boot back to Windows.  However, my latest test worked fine.  We've had no problems with linux-only and dual-boot systems. We've decided not to worry about this for now.  It's not clear it's a real problem.  Plus it's unlikely OLS attendees will bring Windows-only laptops.

> > I noticed that the sockets tapset doesn't contain the fix I made that 
> > allows it to work with later kernels.  If we can't include a later 
> > systemtap rpm, then I'll just update socket.stp with my examples rpm.  
> > Does that sound okay?  I'll also probably install the 
> > tutorial-specific examples under /usr/share/doc/systemtap-0.5.13.  I'd 
> > like to get people used to looking there.
>
> Yes, just be sure to have an example that works. We can put all the 
> examples together in an rpm.

Will do.

> > I was going to ask if we could include the kernel source and cscope, 
> > but I realize that's out of the question.  The kernel source alone is 
> > 437 MB!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mike
>
> The source is already in the debuginfo rpm. However, I don't know about 
> getting the cscope information in there. It isn't in an rpm. Generating 
> the stuff on the fly probably won't work too well either.

I don't see any source coming from the debuginfo rpm.  Where is it located?

> -Will
>
> PS could we take this discussion to the public mailing list?

np, moving to the public list as of this message.

Mike