[Fedora-livecd-list] livecd-tools-015 released

[Jerry Vonau]

Patrice Guay wrote:
> Patrice Guay wrote:
>> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>>> I've just pushed livecd-tools-015 to the repository and am building the
>>> package for tomorrow's rawhide.  You can also grab the tarball from
>>> http://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/livecd
>>>
>>> At this point, the feature flow for Fedora 9 should be pretty much
>>> finished.  There's still some things to help improve the user experience
>>> around the persistence support, but it seems to be working nicely.
>>>
>>
>> I tested livecd-tools-015 under CentOS 5. Here are some the little 
>> problems
>> I encountered so far:
>>
>> To make isomd5sum optional, it should not be invoked in every case 
>> (live.py,
>> line 256).
>>
>> At line 200 of livecd-iso-to-disk, it would be better to test the 
>> existence
>> of the $overlaysizemb variable before evaluating if it is greater than 
>> 2047MB.
>> In certain circumstances (vfat usbkey, overlaysizemb undefined) this 
>> error
>> message is displayed:
>>
>> /usr/bin/livecd-iso-to-disk: line 200: [: : integer expression expected
>>
> I just found that the iso images created with livecd-tools-015 under 
> CentOS 5
> don't boot correctly:
> 
> [...]
> ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe
> Red Hat nash version 5.1.19.6 starting
> mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
> setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
> setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
> setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
> switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> 
> I still can't figure this one. Even a minimal iso image displays this 
> behavior.
> 
> -- 
> Patrice

Think you'll need to use mkinitrd-6.0.34-1 to work with 
livecd-tools-015, as mayflower is now part of the mkinitrd package.
I'm not sure if there is an updated mkinitrd package for anything but 
F9. Might have better luck with version 14 in your environment.

Jerry