clean up notes after resolving frustrating user-setup gotcha

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/debian-live-problems.txt b/doc/debian-live-problems.txt
index 13fe99b..e8db2aa 100644
--- a/doc/debian-live-problems.txt
+++ b/doc/debian-live-problems.txt
@@ -25,12 +25,21 @@ If you don't run the second line as well, you will get the error:
 
 ### Missing symlinked files
 
+When building hdd images, often targetting the FAT32 filesystem, all symlinks
+get removed from the binary image. If you are trying to create a "plainroot"
+image using ext3 or any unix-style filesystem, this is a big problem. To
+disable this step, edit /usr/lib/live/build/binary_includes on the host build
+system, and around line 57 comment out the line:
+
+	find binary -type l | xargs rm -f
+
 If you get a boot error like:
 
     Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
 
 Then init may be unable to link to necessary library (like lib/ld-linux.so.3),
-because of some badness in the binary build system. Try overcoming with:
+because of some badness in the binary build system. If you can't do the above
+hack editing the symlink deletion out, you could do:
 
     lb clean --binary
     lb config
@@ -71,3 +80,8 @@ necessary):
 
     DU_DIM="$(echo 50 + $DU_DIM | bc)"
 
+### Missing Serial Console on Boot
+
+It appears to break live-boot configuration if the user-setup debian package is
+installed?
+