Fedora14: Problme with pungi ?

mike cloaked mike.cloaked at gmail.com
Fri Nov 5 16:38:30 UTC 2010


On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Terry Barnaby <terry1 at beam.ltd.uk> wrote:
> On 11/05/2010 03:42 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote:
>> I am trying to make a custom DVD of Fedora14 with all of the current updates
>> using Pungi. I normally also add my own RPM's to create a custom system for my
>> use, but at the moment I am trying to create a standard system. This has worked
>> well in the past howvever with Fedora14 it fails.
>> I am using the command:
>>
>> pungi --nosource --nosplitmedia --nodebuginfo --cachedir=`pwd`/cache -G -C -B -I
>> --flavor Fedora --name Fedora --ver 14 -c
>> /usr/share/spin-kickstarts/fedora-install-fedora.ks
>>
>> This all appears to work fine, but when I try and boot the DVD I get a:
>>
>> "Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. ..."
>>
>> The standard Fedora14 DVD works fine, so I guess pungi is not setting something
>> up correctly in the initrd or the kernel is not using the initrd for some
>> reason. Any ideas ?
>
> I have just looked at the initrd.img that has been created and the permissions
> of sbin/init (and all other programs in sbin are the same) is:
> -rw-------. 1 root root   36088 Nov  5 16:02 init
>
> It think it should be (Like on the standard DVD):
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        36088 Oct 21 19:15 sbin/init
>
> So I guess something has gone wrong at the creation of the initrd stage,
> or there is something wrong with the root user setup ?

I have been building f14 install isos for a while - and I have not had
this problem - however I build with pungi inside a mock chroot - I
wonder if this is a possible cause?

-- 
mike c


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