[Thincrust-devel] boot issues with appliance on F11

Joey Boggs jboggs at redhat.com
Thu Apr 9 13:03:22 UTC 2009


I'm still working through the items in base.ks  but it's definitely 
something in there, works fine when I remove everything below the 
packages section at the top. I've removed the 2 added init scripts and 
it still does it. So just working my way down the list.



Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
> Joey Boggs wrote:
>> I retract my previous statement, aos-rawhide does boot fine with the 
>> original provided kickstart, using the additional customizations does 
>> produce an unbootable machine that hangs at a cursor. I'll keep 
>> working on this and try to narrow it down some more.
>
> Thanks a lot for looking into this! So these are our customizations 
> which are causing it not to boot? Maybe we're really missing a package 
> or so...
>
> Anyway, here's the python script we're using to generate the appliance:
>
> http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/soas/repos/mainline/blobs/master/appliance.py 
>
>
> All the stuff we're using should be in that repo.
>
> --Sebastian
>
>> Joey
>>
>> Joey Boggs wrote:
>>> I've taken a quick look so far, The aos-rawide image does boot fine 
>>> along with the sugar customizations to the kickstart under kvm, I'm 
>>> downloading virtualbox now to test. I've downloaded the tarball with 
>>> the images you've built and it contains an xml file and a vmdk disk 
>>> image. What are the steps run to generate your build so we can more 
>>> closely replicate the process?
>>>
>>> Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> we from SugarLabs have been trying to build virtual appliances and 
>>>> have uploaded them here: 
>>>> http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/appliances/
>>>>
>>>> But the most recent appliances don't seem to boot and not even to 
>>>> get past GRUB. This has been reported when using VirtualBox.
>>>>
>>>> It's a bit strange, as Bryan has confirmed being able to build a 
>>>> minimal F10 appliance under F10. We're using Rawhide for our build 
>>>> machine, though, while the appliance is based on the F11 beta state.
>>>>
>>>> The kickstart file is up in the Sugar on a Stick GIT repo here 
>>>> (we're including the base.ks and the sugar.ks, which are in the 
>>>> same repo):
>>>>
>>>> http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/soas/repos/mainline/blobs/master/appliance.ks 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Here's the ticket on sugarlabs.org: 
>>>> http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/677
>>>>
>>>> Any help with that would be really appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks & Best Regards,
>>>> --Sebastian
>
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