[Fedora-livecd-list] Issue with customized Fedora Live CD

[Douglas McClendon]

Well, what you described is not necessarily a problem.  The file 
locations I described are what livecd-tools for fedora-8 uses.  What you 
found was what livecd-tools used for fedora-7.

You mentioned revisor, and didn't mention which whether you were 
building this on a fedora-7 or fedora-8 system.

Perhaps the revisor developers will be able to help you.  If you look on 
their website, they have a mailinglist of their own.

-dmc


sebastian at when.com wrote:
> Hi Douglas,
> 
> thank you for your response. I have burned the image to a DVD and tried 
> to boot from it - some issue here. Then, I have mounted (like you 
> suggested) the image on my computer, and I have found some interesting 
> details:
> 
> After having mounted the whole image, I discovered that the squashfs.img 
> file was in the root directory of the image - not in the LiveOS directory!
> I was able to mount the squashfs.img - then, I had a look at its 
> directory tree:
> There is no ext3fs.img in it, only a large (in this case approx. 3 GB) 
> file called os.img and a directory called sysroot, without any files in it.
> 
> In my opinion, this might be an explanation for the error, but the 
> question is, who has caused this and how to solve it...
> I am currently going to double-check the result using livecd-creator 
> (well, revisor uses livecd-creator tools, doesn't it?... but I will give 
> it a try.)
> 
> Sebastian
> 
> 
> Douglas McClendon wrote:
>> sebastian at when.com wrote:
>>> Hi there!
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> I am going to build a customized Fedora Live CD with some educational 
>>> applications using revisor. In the repo config, I needed to exclude 
>>> *.i586 and aspell-* (apart from aspell and aspell-en) to solve 
>>> conflicts. In the end, the image was successfully created (a little 
>>> bit larger than expected, currently approx. 750 MB, but that’s not 
>>> the problem).
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> I have tested the image in a VMware installation and there, I got the 
>>> following error message:
>>>
>>
>> I don't have any ideas off the top of my head.  But the first things I 
>> would ask/suggest are
>>
>> - does the image exhibit the same behavior under qemu and/or real 
>> hardware?
>>
>> - assuming it does, then you might try manually mounting the the image 
>> and looking at the filesystem (specifically /sbin/init), i.e. 
>> something like
>>
>> # mkdir /mnt/test_prime
>> # mkdir /mnt/test_container
>> # mkdir /mnt/test_root
>> # mount -o loop /path/to/Fedora-8-Live-i686.iso /mnt/test_prime
>> # mount -o loop /mnt/test_prime/LiveOS/squashfs.img /mnt/test_container
>> # mount -o loop /mnt/test_container/LiveOS/ext3fs.img /mnt/test_root
>> # ls -l /mnt/test_root/sbin/init
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35440 2007-10-10 14:54 /mnt/test_root/sbin/init
>>
>> -dmc
>>>  
>>>
>>> WARNING: Requested /sbin/init binary does not exist on rootfs.
>>>
>>> Dropping to a shell. Good Luck!
>>>
>>> Does anybody have an idea what might be causing this?
>>>
>>> BTW: The kickstart file is, customized, but based on the original 
>>> livecd-fedora-8-desktop.ks, which also includes 
>>> livecd-fedora-8-base-desktop.ks.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Sebastian
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