Re: Most of the time trouble booting USB hybrid image

2013-05-06 Thread Jean-Michel Philippe
Hello, > My problem is that the generated hybrid image most of the time is > not bootable. […] When I > try to boot from the USB stick, the system hangs in the BIOS, the > HDD LED is lighted forever. But this is not always the case. > Sometimes I can boot from the USB stick without a problem. In c

Re: RFC: persistence improvements plans

2011-11-16 Thread Jean-Michel Philippe
her since it is not our main focus yet. However if we switch to nodm one day, we'll have to consider it as well as its missing reverse operation :). @Intrigeri: I misunderstood a bit your pages and didn't catch on removing GDM was no longer considered. -- Jean-Michel Philippe - Do

Re: RFC: persistence improvements plans

2011-11-15 Thread Jean-Michel Philippe
e > "window manager", > and "display manager". > I believe that starting X directly, and using xinit mechanisms to start a > session manager does > what you need. I have to look deeper at this then, thanks for the tip :). Cheers, -- Jean-Michel Phi

Re: RFC: persistence improvements plans

2011-11-15 Thread Jean-Michel Philippe
goal is to shortcut it! Maybe we just need an option “no-DM” which would allow us to start any application/session in X, don't you think? The only issue is to manage the real installation of the live system onto HD for which a DM is likely desirable. Cheers, -- Jean-Michel Philippe -

Re: RFC: persistence improvements plans

2011-11-15 Thread Jean-Michel Philippe
and a password. This is then a must have tool for Debian live in my opinion. Cheers, -- Jean-Michel Philippe - DoudouLinux, the computer they prefer! http://www.doudoulinux.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: RFC: persistence improvements plans

2011-11-08 Thread Jean-Michel Philippe
Hello, Sorry for the delay, I cannot read all I wish in time unfortunately :). My only question is about this: “The Tails usecase requires to move most boot-time communication with the user to a graphical boot menu, running long after live-boot has finished its job.” What is the graphical boot m

Re: Iso-hybrid freezing the BIOS on USB key

2011-08-11 Thread Jean-Michel Philippe
Some old BIOSes are unhappy booting iso-hybrid. In that case, build and use usb-hdd images instead. Not so old indeed, the laptop is less than 2 years old. That's sad news, this means we cannot use iso-hybrid to replace usb images on our website if we don't want to have many people complainin

Iso-hybrid freezing the BIOS on USB key

2011-08-11 Thread Jean-Michel Philippe
ge file to the USB key? NB: fdisk fails to analyze this image file. It is complaining about a wrong partition table: “Error: Invalid partition table - recursive partition on”. Cheers, -- Jean-Michel Philippe DoudouLinux, the computer they prefer! http://www.doudoulinux.org/ -- To UNSUBS