Great Paul. The image creation works fine for me. I have built a RAW image and am using qemu to run it. The image is loaded and I am shown the boot prompt. But I can't go beyond that.
Do tell me about your experience with the VMDK format. Use VMWare to run the image and see if it works. Cheers; Naresh On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Paul Leeming <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I struggled for a while to create a Meego image, but finally managed to > do it. I had a few troubles, which I thought I should share in case they > might be useful for the troubleshooting sections of > http://wiki.meego.com/Image_Creation and > http://wiki.meego.com/Image_Creation_For_Beginners > > > My host machine is Fedora 12, and the command I am using is from the > above image creation guides. > > #> sudo mic-image-creator --config=meego-preview-netbook-core.ks > --format=vmdk --cache=mycache > > This is the summary of the problems and below is the detail > 1) Proxy Configuration Problem > 2) Missing extlinux problem > > > 1) Proxy Configuration Problem-------------------------------------- > http://wiki.meego.com/Image_Creation_For_Beginners says that you can > have a local config file called ~/.mic2_sys.conf to put the proxy and > cache details in. However, this doesn't work. > > Later I found in http://wiki.meego.com/Image_Creation that the config > file is actually called ~/.mic2.conf. Once I put my proxy settings in > this file it worked. > > So can 'Image Creation For Beginners' and 'Image Creation' guides be > made the same? > > > > 2) Missing extlinux problem--------------------------------------- > mic2 failed with the following error: > > Error: failed to create image : Needed file: /sbin/extlinux not found, > please check your installation > > After much googling and messing about I managed to 'fix' this by: > Downloading syslinux-3.86.tar.bz2 > from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/ > Unpacking it > #> tar xvf syslinux-3.86.tar.bz2 > copying the extlinux executable to /sbin > #> sudo cp syslinux-3.86/extlinux/extllinux /sbin > > Not sure if this is the correct way to do this but it worked. > > By the way syslinux was already installed before I tried to build a > Meego image. yum said "Package syslinux-3.85-5.1.i386 already installed > and latest version" but I still needed to do the above to sort it out. > > > Anyhow after that it all worked and I have my image. Just need to work > out how to run it.... > > Paul > > > > > *Paul Leeming* > > > > *Teleca* > > Sunley House, 46 Jewry Street, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8RY > > Phone: +441962868225, Fax: +441962868867 > > [email protected] > > www.teleca.com > > > > Teleca Limited, a company registered in England & Wales, registration > number 2773878, registered office at 137 Barlow Moor Road, Didsbury, > Manchester M20 2PW. VAT registration number GB 674 6583 90 > > > > *Follow what's going on at Teleca's blog on > www.whatsyourideaoftomorrow.blogspot.com.* > > > > *The information contained in this message is confidential and is intended > for the addressee(s) only. If you have received this message in error please > notify the sender immediately. The unauthorized use, disclosure, copying or > alteration of this message is strictly prohibited.* > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MeeGo-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev > >
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