Daily builds are no longer livecd images

[Chris Ball]

Hi Mikus,

   > I did the zcat 20090525.bootable.gz > /dev/sdf1 (USB stick).
   > That USB stick failed to boot on the XO.  The messages from OFW
   > were "Error: Unknown file system Can't open disk label package"
   
I think that's because you should have used /dev/sdf, not /dev/sdf1.
Using /dev/sdf1 fails to copy over the correct partition table to
the start of the disk.

   > After the XO had completed rebooting (in the process, it reloaded
   > its root filesystem from the USB stick), the changes I had
   > previously made were NOT there.

You're right -- I think the persistence only applies to NAND images
generated with livecd-iso-to-xo at the moment.  Does anyone have
suggestions for how to go from a livecd ISO to an ext3 build that
doesn't involve a squashfs/ext3 image, and just puts the files in
place on the image directly?

livecd-iso-to-xo already knows how to mount the ISO and then call
mkfs.jffs2 on the root dir, so we need to work out how to do a similar
thing but using mkfs.ext3:  going from a root dir to a disk image file
that contains a partition table/bootloader/directory tree in ext3.

Any ideas?  Thanks,

- Chris.
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Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>