My objective was to install Moblin (IVI version) to the HDD of my Dell Inspiron Mini 10, add some new drivers and other software, and then create a new Live USB image from the HDD installation. I was successful but it seemed necessary to use a workaround; this email is to document and share that workaround.
I created a Live USB image with the Moblin Image Convertor tool from the moblin-image-manager package (version 0.1-1.8, I believe, using the mic2 tools). Unfortunately, this image failed to boot completely when written to a USB stick, dropping me to a bash 3.2 shell. The problem appeared to be that /etc/fstab was just a copy of the version on the HDD, rather than being patched by the tools. There is a workaround that solved the problem (only once - I haven't the time to reproduce the problem and test the repeatability of this workaround). The workaround is simply to run the Moblin Image Convertor tool again to create a second image, using the first image as the input. This seems to patch /etc/fstab (and perhaps some other files - I haven't checked the details). The second image boots after being written to a USB stick. My apologies if this is already known - I have looked through a fair amount of documentation for mic2 without seeing mention of the problem or a solution. Cheers, Sean __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4624 (20091120) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
