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

[Patrice Guay]

Jerry Vonau wrote:
> 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
>
Then mkinitrd >= 6.0.31 (the version where mkliveinitrd was added) is a 
requirement for livecd-tools-015. This should be added to the
SPEC file.

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Patrice