[Fedora-livecd-list] Building CentOS5 Live CD on F10

[Jerry Vonau]

On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:58 -0500, Forrest Taylor wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 21:01 -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 16:18 -0500, Forrest Taylor wrote:
> > > I am trying to build a CentOS 5.1 Live image on Fedora 10.  It builds
> > > the image, but when I try to run it, it fails to boot with:
> > > mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
> > > 
> > > I was able to successfully build CentOS5.1 on another CentOS 5 machine
> > > using the repo provided by nanotechnologies.qc.ca.  However, it uses the
> > > older livecd-tools-013.  I rebuilt livecd-tools-020 on CentOS5, but I
> > > get the same error that I had on F10.
> > > 
> > > Does anyone know what changed in the newer livecd-tools that no longer
> > > supports CentOS5?
> > 
> > Yea, mayflower, the thing that builds the initrd for the livecd, was
> > moved from livecd-tools to mkinitrd after livecd-tools-013. 
> 
> That explains why the newer livecd-tools didn't work.  However, why
> didn't it work in F10?  I.e., why can't I create a CentOS5 Live CD in
> Fedora 10?

If I'm wrong someone should correct me, the livecd build process is
using the mkinitrd from CentOS, mkinitrd is being run in a chroot
environment, in the target image. 

Jerry