[Thincrust-devel] boot issues with appliance on F11

[Sebastian Dziallas]

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