On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:18:02AM -0600, Rene Sonderegger wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'm new to DebianLive. I've been trying to use it for the last couple days, > but I'm hardly getting anywhere. I would appreciate some help. > > Here is what I'm trying to do: > 1. Put a modified kernel with a minimal system on a USB drive. http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-live-devel/2007-July/001947.html
> 2. Add two executable programs into /usr/local/bin. > 3. Add a service script to start the two programs after the system booted. chroot_local-includes should handle these. > Here is what I'm working with: > Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r1 > Kernel 2.6.20.19 pached with RTAI 3.5-cv > Live-helper 1.0~a21-1 Why not the latest? > Syslinux 1:3.51-1~e > > Some of the main problems that I've run into are: > 1. After lh_config, change from iso to usp-hdd in config/chroot, lh_build > and dd if=binary.img of=/dev/sda, "Unknown keyword in syslinux.cfg." shows > up 4 times and when I press enter to boot it reports "Could not find kernel > image: /vmlinuz". I see this too > 2. When I try mount -o loop,offset=512 binary.img /mnt, it reports "mount: > you must specify the filesystem type". Works for me; do you get something like: $ file ./binary.img ./binary.img: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0x6, active, starthead 0, startsector 1, 511999 sectors > 4. To reproduce my steps, I use scripts for most of my work. It would be > nice to enter something like lh_config -b usb-hdd -p minimal but it just > reports "lh_config: invalid option - b". I'm going to guess that this goes away if you upgrade. Justin _______________________________________________ debian-live-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
