XO: livecd-iso-to-disk.sh on rhel5 seems problematic

Eric Sandeen sandeen at redhat.com
Tue Oct 14 15:20:32 UTC 2008


Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 22:45 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> I was trying to use Jeremy's livecd-iso-to-disk.sh script w/ the
>> olpc-gnome.iso to get my XO up and running and it got very weird boot
>> failures:
>>
>> Stuff like "<buffer at 800000>:2: Can't find word to replace"
>> and "Can't open boot device"
>>
>> Running the script on an F8 box got it going properly.
>>
>> I'm not sure what the problem is at this point but just in case anyone
>> else has had the same trouble...
> 
> I honestly haven't tried it on RHEL5 -- it's entirely possible that
> something in RHEL5 is too old to work properly.  A run of it with sh -x
> might point out some other place we're depending on something newer.  If
> so, I'm fine with taking patches for that ;)

Yeah, I'll see if I can find something; if not, I at least wanted to
note that it may be the cause of cryptic failures.  :)

-Eric




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