Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] dracut module 'dmsquash-live' cannot be found or installed.

[Frederick Grose]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:23 AM, John Florian <john.florian(a)dart.biz&gt;
wrote:

>   I have a script that causes a new initrd to be built for my live
> images
>  (that have been written to flash drives).  This script works great on
>  Fedora 18 but causes the error (see subject) when run a Fedora 20 system –
>  both having been created by livecd-tools.  My script calls _
>  *LiveImageCreatorBase*__write_dracut_conf() and I can see that
>  dmsquash-live is requested:
>
>
>
>  # cat /etc/dracut.conf
>
>  filesystems+="vfat msdos isofs ext4 xfs btrfs "
>
>  drivers+="sr_mod sd_mod ide-cd cdrom =ata sym53c8xx aic7xxx ehci_hcd
>  uhci_hcd ohci_hcd usb_storage usbhid firewire-sbp2 firewire-ohci sbp2
>  ohci1394 ieee1394 mmc_block sdhci sdhci-pci pata_pcmcia mptsas udf
>  virtio_blk virtio_pci virtio_scsi virtio_net virtio_mmio virtio_balloon
>  virtio-rng ums_realtek  "
>
>  add_dracutmodules+=" dmsquash-live pollcdrom "
>
>  hostonly="no"
>
>  dracut_rescue_image="no"
>
>
>
>
>
>  Interestingly, the pollcdrom module on that same line is included in the
>  initrd without any problem.  Both modules appear to be available for
>  inclusion:
>
>
>
>  # dracut --list-modules | sort
>
>  base
>
>  bash
>
>  biosdevname
>
>  btrfs
>
>  busybox
>
>  cms
>
>  convertfs
>
>  crypt
>
>  crypt-gpg
>
>  crypt-loop
>
>  dasd
>
>  dasd_mod
>
>  dasd_rules
>
>  debug
>
>  dm
>
>  dmraid
>
>  dmsquash-live
>
>  drm
>
>  ecryptfs
>
>  fs-lib
>
>  fstab-sys
>
>  i18n
>
>  img-lib
>
>  kernel-modules
>
>  lvm
>
>  mdraid
>
>  modsign
>
>  multipath
>
>  plymouth
>
>  pollcdrom
>
>  qemu
>
>  rescue
>
>  resume
>
>  rootfs-block
>
>  selinux
>
>  shutdown
>
>  syslog
>
>  systemd
>
>  systemd-bootchart
>
>  system-upgrade
>
>  system-upgrade-fedora
>
>  terminfo
>
>  udev-rules
>
>  url-lib
>
>  usrmount
>
>  virtfs
>
>  watchdog
>
>  zfcp
>
>  zfcp_rules
>
>
>
>
>
>  Does anyone have an easy answer to this one?  I’ll keep digging deeper but
>  thought someone here might already know what’s going on.
>
>
>
>  --
>
>  John Florian
>  
​Sorry for the late reply.

Does this link help?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#Kernel_updates
​


​        --Fred​