[Fedora-livecd-list] livecd-tools, rawhide and no /dev/root

[Sebastian Vahl]

Am Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:57:08 -0500
schrieb Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com>:

> On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 21:52 +0100, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
> > In vmware and qemu the cd boots fine but show some errors: Both
> > found a fault with a deprecated device link in 00-cdlabel.rules and
> > 00-livecd.rules:
> 
> These are just deprecation warnings -- for now, the rules work, they
> just spew a warning.  Bill sent a patch last week-ish to fix them up.

Thx for explaining this. First I've thought 2.6.20 is one of these
"future kernels".


> > My question here is: Where is the error? :)
> > I assume it is in the creation of the initramfs in correlation with
> > libata (I have no sata). But I don't know a way to create a working
> > one.
> 
> This is highly probable.  And with the test1 live CD, only some of the
> pata bits worked due to a combination of spaces not being in the right
> place and some kernel wonkiness.
> 
> > Is there a newer version of the livecd-tools? I still use this one:
> > http://people.redhat.com/davidz/livecd/i386/livecd-tools-001-1.i386.rpm
> > And livecds based on fc6 works fine.
> 
> I've got a set of changes which works for the little bit of pata
> hardware that I was able to find relatively quickly around the office.
> The patches and config packages that I used for the test2 live CD are
> at http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/live/f7test2/.  

I've created a base livecd from todays rawhide. What I can say for now: 
I was able to boot it on both machines (mentioned in first mail).

> And there's a
> README at http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/live/f7test2/README along
> the same lines as the one davidz posted with the FC6 live CD. 
 
The directory "os" is missing from the development-repo. :)

> It's at least worth checking to see if that solves things for you
> before going any further on trying to track things down.

Ok. Next time I will ask earlier. :)

Sebastian
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