Netboot failures

2010-02-22 Thread John Morrissey
I'm working on a Debian Live lenny image to use as a netboot rescue image on failed machines. I'm using live-helper 2.0~a7-1: lh config -a amd64 -d lenny -b net --hostname lenny-live-amd64 \ --net-root-server 172.16.5.212 \ --net-root-path /vol/misc/debian-livecd-root/lenny-amd64

Re: Netboot failures

2010-02-22 Thread John Morrissey
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:09:45AM -0500, John Morrissey wrote: > The same 'lh config' invocation (with '-b iso' instead of '-b net') > produces a working ISO image that will boot. > > Perhaps 'udevadm settle' in /scripts/live is failing and the errexit > ('set -e') is causing /init to exit? What

Re: [PATCH] Add support for custom debian installer images mirror

2010-02-22 Thread Cody A.W. Somerville
Hi Daniel, On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 12/17/2009 01:33 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > >> great, but could you please rebase it on current git, so that it's >> apply-able? >> > > ping. > Please find updated patch attached. Cheers, -- Cody A.W. Somerville Software

Fwd: Broken documentation

2010-02-22 Thread Brendan Sleight
Hi Brian, On 22 February 2010 16:08, Brian Wilson wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Brian Wilson > Date: 22 February 2010 16:08 > Subject: Re: Broken documentation > To: Brendan Sleight Please reply to the list - shy users can benefit from the discussion. >> http://live.de

Re: [PATCH] Add support for custom debian installer images mirror

2010-02-22 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 02/22/2010 07:26 PM, Cody A.W. Somerville wrote: Please find updated patch attached. applied, thanks a lot. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-

[PATCH] Fix the build failure in "cp: omitting directory `chroot/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d'"

2010-02-22 Thread Steven Shiau
Hi, I have tried to use live-helper 2.0~a8-1 to build a squeeze live, however, it failed in: Hit http://ftp.tw.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg Hit http://ftp.tw.debian.org squeeze Release Hit http://ftp.tw.debian.org squeeze/main Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates R

Bug#571056: chroot_upstart: divert initctl (like policy-rc.d) to fix start(8) in Ubuntu Lucid postinsts.

2010-02-22 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: live-helper Version: 2.0~a7-1 Severity: normal See also http://bugs.debian.org/571054 (same issue, in pbuilder). In chroot_sysv-rc, live-helper currently creates a policy-rc.d that prevents daemons from starting when they are installed. This works well for sysvinit packages. However, w

Re: live-snapshot question (2)

2010-02-22 Thread Romeo Theriault
Ok, I've got things working properly now. I found that one of the bugs I was hitting was fixed in newer versions of live-initramfs (#565456). The newer live-initramfs also had a new option called "live-media=removable-usb" which tells live-initramfs to only search removable usb drives for the root