[Thincrust-devel] boot issues with appliance on F11

[Bryan Kearney]

Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
> 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

Glad to hear that it is working!


-- bk

> 
> 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
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