On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 13:07 -0700, Jim Abernathy wrote:

On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 14:36 -0500, Tom Zanussi wrote:

And what kind of machine are you booting it on?

Tom

I'm building on Core i5 desktop with Ubuntu 10.10. One of the odd
things I've noticed during the build is it takes the usual long time
(couple of hours) to build. However when it get to task ~4000, it jumps

Yeah, that's not out of line with expectations. You are using
BB_NUMBER_THREADS and PARALLEL make in your local.conf, I assume.

quickly to 43xx close to the end. Not sure if it's missing something
critical and I've not set some parameter about the Root file system
somewhere.

I wouldn't pay too much attention to the task numbers themselves - some
tasks take very little time and finish in quick progression. And
there's nothing specific about a root filesystem setting in the appendix
instructions, we're just copying existing working settings, but there is
something wrong with your build nonetheless.

I'm planning on submitting a patch to the appendix as soon as I can
today or tomorrow morning, which I'll work through and verify, so you
shouldn't have to do any guesswork and shouldn't run into any of these
kinds of problems...

Tom

Jim