Greetings,
I've been building personal Fedora remixes since Fedora 9. I just started building one based on Fedora 16 yesterday. I have noticed two errors:
1) When it builds, everything goes fine... and then it counts down the percentage of the iso it is finishing up... and then it give an isohybrid error:
isohybrid: /var/tmp/imgcreate-1J2TbZ/out/MontanaLinux-F16-001-i686.iso: seek error - 6: Invalid argument
The .iso does finish and it is bootable... so perhaps that error is inconsequential.
2) When I boot the CD, it works fine... but when I do an install... the install goes fine but at the very end where it is installing the bootloader I get a really long anaconda error:
Attached file (MontanaLinux-F16-001-intsall-bug.txt.gz)
That is a big bug making a non-usable system. That was done in a KVM VM. I used gparted to partition the virtual disk before I ran the installer. It has a msdos partition table. I have not tried the install on physical machine... yet.
I was just curious if anyone has run into these errors.
TYL,
On 10/27/2011 05:15 PM, Scott Dowdle wrote:
- When I boot the CD, it works fine... but when I do an install... the install goes fine but at the very end where it is installing the bootloader I get a really long anaconda error:
It seems to be a live installation? Do your live image contain a boot loader? I guess you should include grub2 and some other packages - see the kickstarts in spin-kickstarts.
/Mads
Mads,
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On 10/27/2011 05:15 PM, Scott Dowdle wrote:
- When I boot the CD, it works fine... but when I do an install...
the install goes fine but at the very end where it is installing the bootloader I get a really long anaconda error:
It seems to be a live installation? Do your live image contain a boot loader? I guess you should include grub2 and some other packages - see the kickstarts in spin-kickstarts.
I based my kickstart off of the KDE spin kickstarts. All I did was add additional packages and a tiny bit of branding. Right now I'm doing a build of the stock KDE spin to see if it works or has the same errors. I hope it is a simple matter of adding grub2 to my package list because that is an easy fix.
TYL,
Mads,
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On 10/27/2011 05:15 PM, Scott Dowdle wrote:
- When I boot the CD, it works fine... but when I do an install...
the install goes fine but at the very end where it is installing the bootloader I get a really long anaconda error:
It seems to be a live installation? Do your live image contain a boot loader? I guess you should include grub2 and some other packages - see the kickstarts in spin-kickstarts.
Do a "grep -i grub /usr/share/spin-kickstarts/*.ks" and see what you get. Only one of the .ks files mentions grub (none mention grub2 nor grubby). I guess that means that spin-kickstarts-0.16.1-1.fc16.noarch isn't current for Fedora 16 but that isn't much of a surprise.
In other news, my rebuild of the stock KDE spin using the kickstarts from spin-kickstarts came out to be 1.6 GB in size. My own remix is under 1.8 GB in Fedora 15 but on Fedora 16 it is around 2.1 GB. With Fedora 15 they switched to xz compression... and it saved a lot of space. Something is really out of whack with the compression now.
TYL,
On 10/27/2011 08:19 PM, Scott Dowdle wrote:
Do a "grep -i grub /usr/share/spin-kickstarts/*.ks" and see what you get. Only one of the .ks files mentions grub (none mention grub2 nor grubby). I guess that means that spin-kickstarts-0.16.1-1.fc16.noarch isn't current for Fedora 16 but that isn't much of a surprise.
Try with spin-kickstarts-0.16.4-1.fc16.noarch from updates-testing.
In other news, my rebuild of the stock KDE spin using the kickstarts from spin-kickstarts came out to be 1.6 GB in size. My own remix is under 1.8 GB in Fedora 15 but on Fedora 16 it is around 2.1 GB. With Fedora 15 they switched to xz compression... and it saved a lot of space. Something is really out of whack with the compression now.
That seems like a premature conclusion. Packages get more features and grow bigger and get more dependencies.
Going over 2G might reveal bugs in some tools. That could perhaps explain the isohybrid error you mentioned.
/Mads
Mad,
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In other news, my rebuild of the stock KDE spin using the kickstarts from spin-kickstarts came out to be 1.6 GB in size. My own remix is under 1.8 GB in Fedora 15 but on Fedora 16 it is around 2.1 GB. With Fedora 15 they switched to xz compression... and it saved a lot of space. Something is really out of whack with the compression now.
That seems like a premature conclusion. Packages get more features and grow bigger and get more dependencies.
While that is true... that packages get bigger and more deps are added... that does NOT explain why the stock kickstart KDE spin I built would be 1.6 GB vs. the 697 MB iso Fedora releases. Nor does it explain an increase of about 300 MB (compressed) in my remix... but I'll keep looking for clues.
Going over 2G might reveal bugs in some tools. That could perhaps explain the isohybrid error you mentioned.
True that.
TYL,
Mads,
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Try with spin-kickstarts-0.16.4-1.fc16.noarch from updates-testing.
That worked for me great and yes they added grub2 to the package lists.
That seems like a premature conclusion. Packages get more features and grow bigger and get more dependencies.
I did pull my head out and discovered that the there are a number of kickstarts for KDE and I think the one with base in its name is used for the official Fedora spin whereas the one I was using does add a lot of additional stuff... which I had added to my remix. Taking out all of the koffice translations, octave, and a few other packages... moved me back down to 1.7GB for my remix.
Thanks for your assistance. No more errors for me.
TYL,
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