[Libguestfs] FC22: virt-p2v-make-kickstart/livecd-creator doesn't build

[Martin Breault]

On 8/11/2015 11:02 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> I finally worked out what's going on with livecd-creator.  It's
> this bug:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182362
>
> and the workaround is trivial: just add 'tar' to the list of
> packages in the kickstart.  I will add this to the p2v.ks upstream
> shortly.
>
> I'm also building a 32 bit ISO based on Fedora 22 which will
> go on the website later today (if it works).
>
> Rich.
>

Hello,

Thanks for that awesome info, I modified p2v.ks and added "tar" as one 
of the packages and it did in fact build on a Fc22 32-bit OS!  I used 
livecd-creator p2v.ks and it built.

Strangely (very strangely....) when I burn the resulting .iso (383MB) as 
a CD it fails to boot, complaining about blk_update_request errors and 
hangs.  At first I thought it was my CD-RW, however I tried on a 
standard CD-R and it throws the same error at the same sector, on this 
antiquated 32-bit hardware or on newer hardware as well.  I tried 2 
different burn hosts with identical sector error results.

But,  if I burn it as a DVD, it boots perfectly.  If I boot it as a VM 
.iso startup disk, it boots perfectly.  I wrote it to a USB pen drive 
using a windows utility called "rufus" and create a bootable USB disk, 
it works too.  very strange.  But the important thing is that I have a 
32-bit ISO I can use in one of these forms, worst case I will install a 
DVD drive in the antiques I need to salvage.  Not sure why as a CD it 
won't boot and the identical .iso burned to a DVD works.

Anyway, thanks alot for your help, I am on the way to getting this working.

Cheers,

Marty