Re: [Server-devel] Early F11 XS build
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Ok, see two issue, I forgot that the behaviour of method= changed between F9 F11. We now need to make use of stage2= in place of method=(method is going away, anyway). Actually, the winner is repo=hd:LABEL=XSRepo -- with that it picks up both stage2 (installer.img) and the iso. Might even work without 'repo' even. With that anaconda gets going. Issues I am seeing - Anaconda gets confused with the 'family' name having spaces. This is probably minor / cosmetic. We cannot change the name as it'll break upgrades. - Anaconda barfs when ks asks to create a VolGroup with a name that already exists. Like... when re-installing an XS! - The removal of the old VG either dies or is going to take a few years. After 15 minutes it hasn't produced much, and there is no apparent disk IO. cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Early F11 XS build
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: http://members.shaw.ca/jvonau/pub/mkusbinstall-F11 http://members.shaw.ca/jvonau/pub/mkusbinstall-F12 Cool. I'll add those to the xs-livecd repo. My XO-1 boots using version 0.7.0 iso as the source for mkusbinstall. Great. I still think that for XO hardware it's saner to ship the built img. Running anaconda / rpm on the limited RAM is a pretty daunting exercise. And we want to control the kernel we use on the XO. Not all the fedora-updates kernels / initrds work. cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Early F11 XS build
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 10:52 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Is this with anaconda or with your XO image? I've booted F11's anaconda that was released on the dvd in my prior testing. XO image - I'll try tomorrow with the kernel you report as working - and if that works report a bug against the (newer) one I ended up getting. No, you just need files from /isolinux /images on the dvd or disc1... Doesn't mkusbinstall work anymore? Frankly I didn't try it with the XS iso, but assumed it'd be the same as with the F11 DVD. Will try. Earlier, when preparing the installer for my build machine (which has no DVD/CD reader), mkusbinstall (running on a F9 host) did not work for me with the F11 DVD, and I found some instructions that fixed it, by downloading the netboot iso and placing it in /images. What error did anaconda throw up? Got a link to those instructions? I needed to run an update.img to get the installer to see my install when I was upgrading my workstation, can't recall if that problem extended to the usb install method. Maybe there was PEBKAC and/or just a better fix (hints?). I just hope the instructions for our end users can be simple :-) I'm re-testing now, but I'm on a F11 host... Ok, see two issue, I forgot that the behaviour of method= changed between F9 F11. We now need to make use of stage2= in place of method=(method is going away, anyway). Second is we are assuming with sed that there is a ks= in the line we're replacing. confusing anaconda over method/repo/stage2. Edit the sed replacement line replacing method= with repo=, the inner workings are slightly different between F9 and F11. thanks! - I'll fix that :-) Working up a patch cheers, m Jerry ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Early F11 XS build
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 12:42 -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 10:52 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: snip Maybe there was PEBKAC and/or just a better fix (hints?). I just hope the instructions for our end users can be simple :-) I'm re-testing now, but I'm on a F11 host... Ok, see two issue, I forgot that the behaviour of method= changed between F9 F11. We now need to make use of stage2= in place of method=(method is going away, anyway). Second is we are assuming with sed that there is a ks= in the line we're replacing. confusing anaconda over method/repo/stage2. Edit the sed replacement line replacing method= with repo=, the inner workings are slightly different between F9 and F11. thanks! - I'll fix that :-) Working up a patch I had been working on the F12 version for a bit, the F11 is a backport of F12. http://members.shaw.ca/jvonau/pub/mkusbinstall-F11 http://members.shaw.ca/jvonau/pub/mkusbinstall-F12 My XO-1 boots using version 0.7.0 iso as the source for mkusbinstall. The ks file is going to need a bit of work to be useful with an XO-1's mmc card. Now to get it to boot on XO-1.5... Jerry ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Early F11 XS build
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 16:40 -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 12:42 -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 10:52 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: snip Maybe there was PEBKAC and/or just a better fix (hints?). I just hope the instructions for our end users can be simple :-) I'm re-testing now, but I'm on a F11 host... Ok, see two issue, I forgot that the behaviour of method= changed between F9 F11. We now need to make use of stage2= in place of method=(method is going away, anyway). Second is we are assuming with sed that there is a ks= in the line we're replacing. confusing anaconda over method/repo/stage2. Edit the sed replacement line replacing method= with repo=, the inner workings are slightly different between F9 and F11. thanks! - I'll fix that :-) Working up a patch I had been working on the F12 version for a bit, the F11 is a backport of F12. http://members.shaw.ca/jvonau/pub/mkusbinstall-F11 http://members.shaw.ca/jvonau/pub/mkusbinstall-F12 My XO-1 boots using version 0.7.0 iso as the source for mkusbinstall. The ks file is going to need a bit of work to be useful with an XO-1's mmc card. Now to get it to boot on XO-1.5... The XO-1 ran anaconda to the end in GUI mode (needed the ks.cfg made by anaconda for the partitioning info), to run in text you have to supply all the kickstart data (gathered above). Just need to tweek the kickstart file a bit. Note the @xs-server bit, that works perfect. http://members.shaw.ca/jvonau/pub/anaconda-ks.cfg I'll work up a kickstart file that uses text, and adds the olpc.fth file in %post with the info I gathered. To bad I only have one SD card, got to wipe the install to play with os33. :( Jerry ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Early F11 XS build
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: -- the vanilla F11 kernels fail to boot on the XO -- expected? I think it should boot but I don't think the boot.fth is created but its been a while since I've got around to trying it on my XO. boot.fth is created from the kickstart file. The missing thing are the symlinks (vmlinuz, initrd) but I've created those ok. The initrd is clearly unpacked and exec'd but t never completes booting. If it's expected to work, I can work on tracing WTH is going on. If it's known not to work for hard-to-fix reasons, well... - However, that means that making a bootable usb is harder for users. What causes it to be harder to make a bootable usb? To clarify -- a bootable installer. Making a bootable installer from a Fedora DVD involves downloading the netinst iso separately and copying it into the USB disk. - Dependency chains are slimmer... but some are still bizarre. Bits of kde and gnome are there. At a guess this is probably due to PolicyKit. I've had issues with it in the past. Yes, PK is the main culprit. Posted to fedora-olpc on this topic yesterday... m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Early F11 XS build
Hi Martin, On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: In between various complications, I have been working on getting an initial rebase of the XS packages and build infra to F11. After much wrangling with revisor, comps and image-creator, I have an initial installer iso and an image that boots on the XO-1. The XO image tests reasonably well, I haven't had chance to play much with the installer iso (but the image is built from it). All of the above owes a lot to hints from Jerry Vonau - thanks! You will find the files on http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/other/ in about... 6hs -- the name says 0.7 which is misleading, so I will rm them once I have better ones. But in case you want something to play with :-) Notes: - The XO image is using the old XO kernel -- -- I could not include the new kernel from dillinger's repo due to a conflict with kernel-firmware, even if say -kernel-firmware in the ks. -- the vanilla F11 kernels fail to boot on the XO -- expected? I think it should boot but I don't think the boot.fth is created but its been a while since I've got around to trying it on my XO. - The build is slimmer (without a need to slim-it-down manually) because upstream now avoid including some if the boot images in the main iso. - However, that means that making a bootable usb is harder for users. What causes it to be harder to make a bootable usb? - Dependency chains are slimmer... but some are still bizarre. Bits of kde and gnome are there. At a guess this is probably due to PolicyKit. I've had issues with it in the past. Digests and sizes 546M /srv/revisor/xs-f11-i386/iso/OLPC School Server-0.7-i386.iso 401M OLPC School Server-0.7-i386.img.gz aa41b6dbca1aac13f842f13f8106019276d065e6 OLPC School Server-0.7-i386.iso 6bfe1a507704e21e84660a8d091624ffc7dee17a OLPC School Server-0.7-i386.img.gz Cheers, Peter ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] Early F11 XS build
In between various complications, I have been working on getting an initial rebase of the XS packages and build infra to F11. After much wrangling with revisor, comps and image-creator, I have an initial installer iso and an image that boots on the XO-1. The XO image tests reasonably well, I haven't had chance to play much with the installer iso (but the image is built from it). All of the above owes a lot to hints from Jerry Vonau - thanks! You will find the files on http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/other/ in about... 6hs -- the name says 0.7 which is misleading, so I will rm them once I have better ones. But in case you want something to play with :-) Notes: - The XO image is using the old XO kernel -- -- I could not include the new kernel from dillinger's repo due to a conflict with kernel-firmware, even if say -kernel-firmware in the ks. -- the vanilla F11 kernels fail to boot on the XO -- expected? - The build is slimmer (without a need to slim-it-down manually) because upstream now avoid including some if the boot images in the main iso. - However, that means that making a bootable usb is harder for users. - Dependency chains are slimmer... but some are still bizarre. Bits of kde and gnome are there. Digests and sizes 546M/srv/revisor/xs-f11-i386/iso/OLPC School Server-0.7-i386.iso 401MOLPC School Server-0.7-i386.img.gz aa41b6dbca1aac13f842f13f8106019276d065e6 OLPC School Server-0.7-i386.iso 6bfe1a507704e21e84660a8d091624ffc7dee17a OLPC School Server-0.7-i386.img.gz cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
