F7 general question about livecd-creator and timezones
by Skunk Worx
My ks scripts have the timezone set to PDT (America/Los_Angeles).
Installation to a hard drive works as expected. PDT in startup and in
shells, etc.
Creating a livecd-creator iso with the same tz setting, then booting,
shows A/L_A in the /etc/sysconfig/clock file, as expected.
However the date is always EDT in the boot messages, shells, etc.
During startup I see :
(lvm)
Press I to enter interactive startup
Setting clock (utc) Mon Jun 4 00:12:59 EDT 2007
(udev)
I'm not clear on what is happening between lvm and udev in the Linux
startup sequence.
If someone could give me a hint about what to look for and where to look
for it I would appreciate the help.
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John
14 years, 7 months
Adding files into the CD root file system
by Alexandre Magaz Graça
Hi,
I'm making a LiveCD that I want to autorun (from Windows and Linux) to
open a browser showing some help about how it works. So I added a new
option that lets add to the CD root file system.
If someone finds it useful, the attached patch adds this option to
pilgrim. The patch is for the latest git version.
Cheers,
Àlex
16 years, 3 months
Creation of a CentOS 5 Live CD
by Patrice Guay
I was able to create a CentOS 5 Live CD with livecd-tools 009. However,
before launching the livecd-creator, I had to increase the maximum
number of open files:
# ulimit -n 65535
I added a script in the kickstart configuration file to automatically
mount hard drive and logical volume partitions via
/etc/rc.d/init.d/centos-live. If anyone is interested, I could post the
script.
I would like to thank the livecd-tools coders for such a powerfull tool.
--
Patrice Guay
16 years, 5 months
error booting fedora7-live on HD
by sacarde
Hi,
I installed fedora7-live-kde-rc on my HD
but when I reboot, I have error:
RAMDISK
...
...
...
Failed to execute /init
Kernel Panic: not syncing . No init found , try passing init=
p.s.
I try to pass:
title fedora 7
root (hd1,7)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.3023.fc7 root=/dev/hdb8 init=/bin/bash
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.20-1.3023.fc7.img
boot
but same error
can you help me ?
sacarde(a)tiscali.it
16 years, 5 months
Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] livecd-creator, revisor fail to build a CD
by timm gleason
So I have been seeing the 'No Repositories Available' message also, but I
only seem to have the problems when using livecd-creator. Revisor seems to
work ok.
I am trying to build from a local repository only and I see errors from the
CLI tool like this:
No Repositories Available to Set Up
Installing: fedora-livecd ######################### [1/2]
Installing: fedora-livecd-gnome ######################### [2/2]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 1088, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 1069, in main
target.install()
File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 872, in install
self.configureSystem()
File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 646, in configureSystem
f = open("%s/etc/sysconfig/i18n" %(instroot,), "w+")
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/var/tmp/livecd-creator-k8baXl/install_root/etc/sysconfig/i18n'
i finally got the thing to only use local repos once i modified my
/etc/yum.repos.d directory, otherwise revisor was always trying to dld' lots
of packages.
i want to be able to do these from the command line.
regards,
timm
16 years, 5 months
creating livecd with xen
by dgreen＠CLEMSON.EDU
Hello everyone,
This is my first email to the list and I am inquiring to see if anyone has
experience setting up a FC6 or F7 live cd that automatically boots to the
xen hypervisor. If you have done so, what did you use to create it and if
you have documented the steps, in particular the ability to possibly
create a livecd that boots to the xen hypervisor and the ability to run a
couple of guest OS's (domU's) while the live cd is running.
I have tried revisor on F7 but can't set up a xen configuration. I have
gone back to FC6 and now have kadischi, pungi, and livecd-tools.
Of particular interest is a xen comps.xml file...
Thanks in advance.
Vince
16 years, 5 months
Grub no worky
by eric
I installed to my HD, using Fedora 7 LiveCD. Upon system startup, the
Grub, OS selection screen appears. But requires that I hit Enter to
boot. It should timeout after 5 seconds and automatically boot. There
is no other OS loaded on this HD. I tried reloading completely, and
selected the option, not to use a bootloader. But when I tried to boot,
I was greeted with a blinking Grub prompt, which simply hung. So I
installed again, selecting Grub, and must still use manual intervention
to boot to the OS.
I never had this problem with lilo. And have read the Grub docs, but
really think, I'm not doing anything wrong.
Any ideas, appreciated.
ericf
grub.conf
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img
df
Filesystem 1K-blocks
Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 12772504 3477024 9165904 28% /
/dev/sda1
31077 7951 21522 27% /boot
tmpfs
111436 0 111436 0% /dev/shm
head dmesg
Linux version 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7
(kojibuilder(a)xenbuilder4.fedora.phx.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.1.2
20070502 (Red Hat 4.1.2-12)) #1 SMP Wed May 23 22:35:01 EDT 2007
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
sanitize start
sanitize end
copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 000000000009fc00 end:
000000000009fc00 type: 1
copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM
copy_e820_map() start: 000000000009fc00 size: 0000000000000400 end:
00000000000a0000 type: 2
copy_e820_map() start: 00000000000f0000 size: 0000000000010000 end:
0000000000100000 type: 2
copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000100000 size: 000000000def0000 end:
000000000dff0000 type: 1
copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM
copy_e820_map() start: 000000000dff0000 size: 0000000000003000 end:
000000000dff3000 type: 4
copy_e820_map() start: 000000000dff3000 size: 000000000000d000 end:
000000000e000000 type: 3
copy_e820_map() start: 00000000ffff0000 size: 0000000000010000 end:
0000000100000000 type: 2
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000dff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000dff0000 - 000000000dff3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000000dff3000 - 000000000e000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
16 years, 5 months
Installing a custom rpm on a livecd
by William Cohen
Hi all,
I am working on generating a live CD for a systemtap tutorial. The current
livecd has all that is needed to run systemtap on the livecd. We would like to
include the systemtap tutorial materials on the CD, e.g. examples and the
slides. I was thinking of having an rpm and just installing that as a part of
the %post in kickstart file. Have the following line in the %post of the .ks
file used by the livecd-creator:
rpm -i
http://people.redhat.com/wcohen/stap_tutorial/stap_tutorial-0.5.13-1.noar...
I have checked and the rpm is available and I can install it from a commandline
on other linux machine. Is there a simple way install a local RPM onto a liveCD?
Or is creating a yum repository the only way to do this?
-Will
16 years, 5 months
Fedora 7 fails to boot "Cannot find root file system"
by Jon Steer
I have built an FC 7 LiveCD on a FC7 system with a kickstart file that
was modified from the original. Upon booting, I get a large amount of
Ata2.00 exceptions and an error message that it cannot find the root
file system. Afterwards, I get a message about creating a symlink for
/dev/root.
Should I be concerned about the error message about not finding usbhd ?
I am trying to build a console-based LAMP server for the LiveCD.
The kickstart file is below.
skipx
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
timezone US/Eastern
auth --useshadow --enablemd5
selinux --disabled
firewall --disabled
rootpw plaintext
repo --name=a-dev
--baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/os
repo --name=a-extras-dev
--baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/development/i386
%packages
bash
kernel
syslinux
passwd
policycoreutils
chkconfig
authconfig
rootfiles
ntp
yum
wget
usbutils
dmidecode
syslog-ng
emacs-nox
openssh-server
mysql-server
openldap-clients
httpd
php
puppet
php-ldap
net-snmp
mod_ssl
mod_auth_pam
mod_auth_kerb
mod_auth_mysql
-wireless-tools
%post
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16 years, 5 months
cpufreq problem when starting up Fedora 7 Live CD on my notebook
by Chan Jason
Hi all,
I'm new to the list. Sorry if I make any mistake =)
I am trying to run the Fedora 7 Live CD (and will install later) on
my old Compaq Presario 800 notebook (which has a P-III 500 CPU). When
I try to put the disc on the cdrom and startup, hey, the error shows:
cpufreq: change failed with new_state 1 and result 2
It halts..
I have added acpi=off in the boot parameter.. What else I can do to
make my notebook work on F7? Thanks!!
Yours sincerely,
Jason Chan
16 years, 5 months
