From 17f9f580da13c020818d14024b40d4d07fa91f83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ficus Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:45:08 +0100 Subject: clean up notes after resolving frustrating user-setup gotcha --- doc/debian-live-problems.txt | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc') 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? + -- cgit v1.2.3