Re: [Mactel-linux-devel] fixing live cd

[Erik O. <er...@pl...>]

Well, I just found the squashfs patches, so I will continue...

-- Erik

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 10:23:21PM -0500, Erik Osheim wrote:
> OK, I am obviously incompetent, but...
> 
> I haven't had any luck getting the LiveCD to work. It starts to boot,
> but it looks like something with squashfs isn't working; then /newroot
> doesn't exist, and all the devfs stuff after that bombs and I get a
> kernel panic.
> 
> I am using 2.6.16-rc6 here, and from what I can tell the kernel
> doesn't seem to know about squashfs. I can't find that symbol in the
> config anywhere or as a kernel option, even though it is present in
> the config you sent me.
> 
> Is there a patch to enable squashfs support?
> 
> Better yet, if someone who is good at building Live CDs could build
> one that would be great. I can get the new kernel into
> /efi/elilo/bzImage, and change the elilo.conf. I understand pretty
> well how the initrd works (and can get the new kernel's modules into
> it OK) and I can read the linuxrc, but I have no experience with
> anything past that, which is where things are failing.
> 
> Sorry for the complaining; it's just a frustrating process.
> 
> -- Erik
> 
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 05:18:16PM +0100, gimli wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I have attached the kernel config.
> > 
> > cu
> > 
> > gimli
> 
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