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live cd
Posted: 21. Oct 2009, 10:42
by perdidostone
Download today your Live cd, unable to boot,I had grub telling me need a kernel to boot, first thinking in something wrong, finally rebuild whit Isomaster using isolinux.bin. Here I am.Using your Live Cd.
Nice work, check this problem. Maybe was only mine.
There is password for root?
Re: live cd
Posted: 21. Oct 2009, 10:53
by Akuna
Hi perdidostone
Didn't experienced your boot problem here. Of course, I used virtualbox, maybe I should try on a physical CD-ROM to double check.
root password is: live
Re: live cd
Posted: 21. Oct 2009, 11:30
by thenktor
Akuna wrote:Didn't experienced your boot problem here. Of course, I used virtualbox
Same here.
Re: live cd
Posted: 21. Oct 2009, 12:38
by Akuna
Akuna wrote: I used virtualbox, maybe I should try on a physical CD-ROM to double check.
perdidostone,
You found a bug!
When I tried booting from a physical CD-ROM, I had the same error message.
Re: live cd
Posted: 21. Oct 2009, 15:00
by thenktor
Who still uses CD roms? Boot from USB instead!
*scnr*
Re: live cd
Posted: 21. Oct 2009, 16:45
by Shador
I've found a fix for the problem. The next live release should work on real hardware too. If you want to try the current one:
- Install grub2 from here: http://gaia.homelinux.org/salix/package ... 86-1ab.txz
- Download these 3 files and put them into one directory:
http://gaia.homelinux.org/salix/livegrub2/build.tar.bz2
http://gaia.homelinux.org/salix/livegrub2/build.sh
http://gaia.homelinux.org/salix/livegrub2/grub.cfg
- Extract the build.tar.bz2 file to that directory
- Run in that directory (of course you need the beta1 ISO too):
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bash ./build.sh --out=salixlive-13.0-beta1.1.iso --overlay=/path/to/salixlive-13.0-beta1.iso --overlay=build/ --grubcfg=grub.cfg
- After a few minutes the ISO should have been rebuilt as salixlive-13.0-beta1.1.iso in the working directory
The problem was a hardcoded device in the config files, which I did because of some trouble with grub2's bash-like scripting language. It didn't pop up in VirtualBox because there the cd drive is always hd96.
Anyway this fixes yours and Akuna's problem on real hardware.
Re: live cd
Posted: 1. Nov 2009, 16:42
by Akuna
Built a new iso with this script & 'real' CD-ROM do work now.
But keyboard selection from grub boot menu does not seem to be taken into account.
Re: live cd
Posted: 1. Nov 2009, 21:28
by Shador
Did you check /proc/cmdline wether grub2 passed the right parameters? Could you do so if not, please.
Re: live cd
Posted: 2. Nov 2009, 10:51
by Akuna
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 rw quiet lang=fr_FR.utf8 keyboard=fr-latin9
But qwerty/us.map definitely got loaded instead.
Quickly checked rc.live & noticed the keyboard cheatcode has been removed from it...
Is it meant to be handled somewhere else now?
BTW the proper cheatcode syntax used to be keyb=
Has that changed too or might this be the reason why it doesn't work?
Re: live cd
Posted: 2. Nov 2009, 11:19
by flux
You can add a custom script which changes the keyboard to your wishes, e. g. you type at the grub boot prompt the additional cheatcode
keyb=de
for a german keyboard, the script could do the following:
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cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi /etc/hal/fdi/policy/
Then the script should change
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<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">us</merge>
into
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<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">de</merge>
in a state before hal will be started.
Just an idea ...
flux.