You are quite right Ben I didn't read the header properly; trying to do too many things at once. I have recently pushed some update cd build and draklive-installer releases which may fix some of these issues. There is a new test spin which may be somewhat better. I will post the url on irc in a little while. Best, Colin
On Sunday 24 May 2015 17:38:22 Ben Bullard wrote: > I didn't think we were going to use Calamares for 2014.2? > > Ben Bullard > ben79 > -------------------- > OpenMandriva-QA Team > > On 05/24/2015 05:08 PM, Colin Close wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > Some recent work has been done on Calamares which will fix some of this try > > updating Calamares in the current alpha iso. > > As I understand it the install to a single partition may work now. > > Best, > > Colin > > > > On Sunday 24 May 2015 14:34:50 Ben Bullard wrote: > >> This is on 2 separate computers. I'm testing this weekend the .iso user > >> would download from our website: > >> > >> https://www.openmandriva.org/Downloads > >> > >> ie. that which is on SourceForge and our mirrors. Both computers have > >> multiple partitions and existing Linux OS's already installed in > >> UEFI-boot mode. Ergo existing /boot/efi partition. > >> > >> To get it to install on UEFI computers I have to: > >> > >> 1. Boot into Live mode then run 'urpmi.update -a' then > >> > >> 2. 'urpmi grub2 grub2-efi efivar efibootmgr'. All of which update to > >> newer packages. > >> > >> 3. Start installer (drake-live-install) where one must select 'Custom > >> partitioning' not 'Install on existing partitions' so one can select the > >> existing '/boot/efi' partition. > >> > >> 4. On both computers Grub2 appeared to install. But upon reboot the > >> previous grub2 menu was there. Then I find out that initrd wasn't built > >> so I have to chroot into newly installed OS and build initrd with dracut > >> and: > >> > >> 5. # grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg > >> #grub2-install /dev/sdx > >> > >> I would seem to me to be a kool thing if we could make this something > >> which 'just works' on our 2014.2 release. Also giving another valid > >> reason for said release. Steps 1 and 2 should not be necessary and a > >> 2014.2 spin. The bit in 3 about you must select 'Custom partitioning' > >> should probably be in release notes. In fact maybe should be there right > >> now. Finally I'm hoping we can get it to actually build initrd and > >> install grub2 correctly as current OM Lx 3 build 10850 does. At least > >> build 10850 does that here. > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > OM-Cooker mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://ml.openmandriva.org/listinfo.cgi/om-cooker-openmandriva.org > _______________________________________________ OM-Cooker mailing list [email protected] http://ml.openmandriva.org/listinfo.cgi/om-cooker-openmandriva.org
