[gentoo-catalyst] livecd

[gentoo-catalyst] livecd

[Tais M. Hansen]

Hi,

I'm trying to build a new livecd with catalyst but it seems like no matter 
what I do, when the cd boots, it fails miserably mounting the cd. Booting 
with the debug option gives me a shell and I can manually mount the cd just 
fine.

There must be some problem with the init script but I can't seem to figure out 
what?

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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] livecd

[Andrew Gaffney]

Tais M. Hansen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to build a new livecd with catalyst but it seems like no matter 
> what I do, when the cd boots, it fails miserably mounting the cd. Booting 
> with the debug option gives me a shell and I can manually mount the cd just 
> fine.
> 
> There must be some problem with the init script but I can't seem to figure out 
> what?

This is a problem with genkernel-3.4.9. It's already fixed in SVN, and we'll be 
releasing 3.4.10_pre1 soon. In the mean time, you can apply the patch 208477 or 
use genkernel-3.4.9_pre6.

Also, you'll likely run into a problem with mounting the squashfs loopback. You 
need to make sure you're using <squashfs-tools-3.3 or using >=gentoo-sources-2.6.24.

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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] livecd

[Tais M. Hansen]

On Friday 08 February 2008 14:36:41 Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Tais M. Hansen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to build a new livecd with catalyst but it seems like no
> > matter what I do, when the cd boots, it fails miserably mounting the cd.
> > Booting with the debug option gives me a shell and I can manually mount
> > the cd just fine.
> >
> > There must be some problem with the init script but I can't seem to
> > figure out what?
>
> This is a problem with genkernel-3.4.9. It's already fixed in SVN, and
> we'll be releasing 3.4.10_pre1 soon. In the mean time, you can apply the
> patch 208477 or use genkernel-3.4.9_pre6.
>
> Also, you'll likely run into a problem with mounting the squashfs loopback.
> You need to make sure you're using <squashfs-tools-3.3 or using
> >=gentoo-sources-2.6.24.

I was just about to answer the questiong myself. I'll just copy'n'paste what I 
was about to mail. :)


Part of the errors are due to genkernel being broken:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207159

The other part is sqashfs. Apparently something is wrong with the generated 
squashfs image. I'm getting "Invalid argument" error when trying to mount it 
on the livecd and the following errors when I try to mount it on the build 
system, where catalyst is run:

squashfs: version 3.2-r2 (2007/01/15) Phillip Lougher
SQUASHFS error: Major/Minor mismatch, trying to mount newer 3.1 filesystem
SQUASHFS error: Please update your kernel

Both kernels are 2.6.23-gentoo-r6 and I'm not going anywhere near 2.6.24. I'm 
using sys-fs/squashfs-tools-3.3 btw.



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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] livecd

[Andrew Gaffney]

Tais M. Hansen wrote:
> The other part is sqashfs. Apparently something is wrong with the generated 
> squashfs image. I'm getting "Invalid argument" error when trying to mount it 
> on the livecd and the following errors when I try to mount it on the build 
> system, where catalyst is run:

Nothing is "wrong" with squashfs. It's just that squashfs-tools-3.3 generate the 
squashfs in a different format than 3.2, and gentoo-sources-2.6.24 is the first 
kernel that's patched with support for the new 3.3 format.

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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] livecd

[Tais M. Hansen]

On Friday 08 February 2008 15:56:08 Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Tais M. Hansen wrote:
> > The other part is sqashfs. Apparently something is wrong with the
> > generated squashfs image. I'm getting "Invalid argument" error when
> > trying to mount it on the livecd and the following errors when I try to
> > mount it on the build system, where catalyst is run:
> Nothing is "wrong" with squashfs. It's just that squashfs-tools-3.3
> generate the squashfs in a different format than 3.2, and
> gentoo-sources-2.6.24 is the first kernel that's patched with support for
> the new 3.3 format.

I know that now. :) ... Anyway, it threw me off saying it was generating 
a "little endian 3.1 squashfs image" (or something like that).

I got it working using zisofs instead for now. I have a few servers I need to 
install.

Thanks though.

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Tais M. Hansen

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