[Thincrust-devel] boot issues with appliance on F11

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Joey Boggs wrote:
> 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.

Hi again,

sorry, I should have really double-checked this. Really.

Well, we happened to have quite a number of kickstarts for various 
projects around, and I started to merge those some time ago. But 
apparently, all the live media scripts also went into the appliance.ks 
(obviously, because the base.ks gets pulled in).

But I don't really see a reason for this, except the fact that I seem to 
have had too few coffee when committing that change. So finally, I 
modified that appliance.ks now again to have all the stuff in one file 
(at least in this case). I'll go and give it a try tomorrow, and report 
back then as soon as possible.

Sorry for the confusion and thanks again,
    --Sebastian

> 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