Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o>
To: Brad House <brad_mssw@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] x86-livecd - bugs and suggestions
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 11:17:28
Message-Id: 1075029435.7456.2.camel@nosferatu.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-releng] x86-livecd - bugs and suggestions by Brad House
1 On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 10:20, Brad House wrote:
2 > Attached is a patch based of yours that is tested and works fine.
3 > This applies against your -r5 rc-scripts
4 >
5
6 Are we sure we do not want lvm, etc setup?
7
8 > I've also updated my -r4 ebuild to pull a fully patched version
9 > that includes these patches.
10 >
11 > The CD reboots just fine with root mounted on a loop device. Also,
12 > I took care of quite a few other little errors (LVM/RAID).
13 >
14 > A few deps you'll need for livecds now:
15 > baselayout-1.8.6.12-r4 (as of this evening, or a patched version
16 > that may be released later by Azarah)
17 > livecd-tools-1.0.0_beta2 (autoconfig and net-setup scripts)
18 > genkernel-3.0.1_beta7
19 >
20 > Works well, though we seem to be getting an error when it tries to start
21 > hotplug from within the autoconfig script about needing to run
22 > /sbin/depscan.sh. I made it run /sbin/depscan during the livecd creation
23 > to try to get rid of this error, but it did not seem to help, so I'm not
24 > sure under what circumstances this can occur, but it does seem that
25 > hotplug does start, and works properly, so I'm somewhat at a loss, other
26 > than that, the livecd seems to be 100% in sync with the previous livecds
27 > at this point.
28 >
29 > (My testing was on AMD64 if anyone is curious)
30 >
31 > -Brad
32 --
33
34 Martin Schlemmer
35 Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
36 Cape Town, South Africa

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