[Thincrust-devel] boot issues with appliance on F11

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Replying to myself... ;)

Well, it really turned out that the livecd scripts were the cause - with 
my most recent commits, the appliance boots now again. These scripts 
seem to have gotten somehow accidentally included.

I built a new version and uploaded it:

http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-April/013718.html

Joey and Bryan, again thanks for looking into this!

--Sebastian

Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
> 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