My live CD has no boot option in the menu

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Can anyone see anything obviously wrong in the attached kickstart?

The live CD appears to build fine (tried both F20 & Rawhide versions
of livecd-creator).

However when booted in qemu:

  qemu-system-x86_64 -m 2048 -cdrom livecd-minimal-201405171054.iso -boot d

it only has the "Troubleshooting" menu.  There is no other boot menu,
nor does it autoboot (I waited quite a while), nor is there any
visible indication that it is going to autoboot, eg. no countdown.

Also attached is the isolinux.cfg file extracted from the ISO.

Any ideas here?

Rich.

PS. If you want to try building from the kickstart, you will have to
remove or change the --proxy option from the repo lines.

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[Brian C. Lane]

On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 04:07:52PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>  Can anyone see anything obviously wrong in the attached kickstart?
>  
>  The live CD appears to build fine (tried both F20 & Rawhide versions
>  of livecd-creator).
>  
>  However when booted in qemu:
>  
>    qemu-system-x86_64 -m 2048 -cdrom livecd-minimal-201405171054.iso -boot d
>  
>  it only has the "Troubleshooting" menu.  There is no other boot menu,
>  nor does it autoboot (I waited quite a while), nor is there any
>  visible indication that it is going to autoboot, eg. no countdown.
>  
>  Also attached is the isolinux.cfg file extracted from the ISO. 
Looks like your build may not have installed any kernels. The boot
stanzas are driven off of the /boot/vmlinuz-* kernels so if there aren't
any kernels you won't get any entries.

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[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 09:09:33AM -0700, Brian C. Lane wrote:
>  On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 04:07:52PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>  > Can anyone see anything obviously wrong in the attached kickstart?
>  > 
>  > The live CD appears to build fine (tried both F20 & Rawhide versions
>  > of livecd-creator).
>  > 
>  > However when booted in qemu:
>  > 
>  >   qemu-system-x86_64 -m 2048 -cdrom livecd-minimal-201405171054.iso -boot d
>  > 
>  > it only has the "Troubleshooting" menu.  There is no other boot menu,
>  > nor does it autoboot (I waited quite a while), nor is there any
>  > visible indication that it is going to autoboot, eg. no countdown.
>  > 
>  > Also attached is the isolinux.cfg file extracted from the ISO.
>  
>  Looks like your build may not have installed any kernels. The boot
>  stanzas are driven off of the /boot/vmlinuz-* kernels so if there aren't
>  any kernels you won't get any entries. 
Ah ... that makes sense of course.

It's a little confusing, but an easy fix.

Rich.

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