liveinst failing on images made with livecd-creator

[Brian Varney]

I'm having problems getting the liveinst to work with images that I create
with livecd-creator.

The problem only occurs when I make the livecd iso file.  Here's the command
I'm using to create the iso.
"livecd-creator -c /usr/share/livecd-tools/livecd-fedora-8-desktop.ks"

liveinst works great until the very end when it says "performing
post-installation filesystem changes".  This step never finishes.  It stays
on this step forever and I've waited days.  When I try to boot to the
installed image, I get a grub prompt but no menu options.

I've tried liveinst on the same system using a an iso file straight from
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents//Fedora-8-Live-i686.torrent and
liveinst completes with no issues.

Any ideas on how to get some more debug information out of liveinst to see
what is going wrong?

Thanks for any help,
Brian Varney

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 13:16 -0700, Brian Varney wrote:
> I'm having problems getting the liveinst to work with images that I
> create with livecd-creator.

[snip]
> liveinst works great until the very end when it says "performing
> post-installation filesystem changes".  This step never finishes.  It
> stays on this step forever and I've waited days.  When I try to boot
> to the installed image, I get a grub prompt but no menu options.

Are you using non-ext3 filesystem images either for installing to or
from?

Jeremy

[Brian Varney]

On Jan 2, 2008 1:33 PM, Jeremy Katz  wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 13:16 -0700, Brian Varney wrote:
> > I'm having problems getting the liveinst to work with images that I
> > create with livecd-creator.
>
> [snip]
> > liveinst works great until the very end when it says "performing
> > post-installation filesystem changes".  This step never finishes.  It
> > stays on this step forever and I've waited days.  When I try to boot
> > to the installed image, I get a grub prompt but no menu options.
>
> Are you using non-ext3 filesystem images either for installing to or
> from?

No.  Everything is ext3.  From liveinst, I choose "Remove all partitions on
selected drives and create default layout", which creates an LVM with an
ext3 filesystem.
> Jeremy
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[Brian Varney]

I'm still having the same problem.  I haven't been able to get liveinst to
work on any livecd that I create.  It never finished the "performing
post-installation filesystem changes" step.  Eventually, I'll break out of
this and find out what actually got put on the hard drive.  Everything got
copied to the "/" partition just fine.  The "/boot" partition only contains
a grub directory with "splash.xpm.gz" file in it.  The kernel and initrd are
not in there.

The LiveCd uses an ext3 filesystem and I'm choosing an ext3 filesystem in
the liveinst.

I've watched top and ps,  and the last thing I see is ext2resize run.  It
appears that the problem is something anaconda does after this?

Is there a way to get some debug information out of anaconda?

On Jan 2, 2008 2:48 PM, Brian Varney  wrote:
> On Jan 2, 2008 1:33 PM, Jeremy Katz  wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 13:16 -0700, Brian Varney wrote:
> > > I'm having problems getting the liveinst to work with images that I
> > > create with livecd-creator.
> >
> > [snip]
> > > liveinst works great until the very end when it says "performing
> > > post-installation filesystem changes".  This step never finishes.  It
> > > stays on this step forever and I've waited days.  When I try to boot
> > > to the installed image, I get a grub prompt but no menu options.
> >
> > Are you using non-ext3 filesystem images either for installing to or
> > from?
>
> No.  Everything is ext3.  From liveinst, I choose "Remove all partitions
> on selected drives and create default layout", which creates an LVM with an
> ext3 filesystem.
> > Jeremy
> >
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