[SOLVED] Archiso releng: booting (in qemu) fails...

Hello
I'm trying to build a modified live media using archiso. The distant goal would be to create a live PXE server that acts as an installation server for (other) pre-configured linux images.
But now I'm a bit stuck at the beginning...
I tried to follow the Archiso wiki closely to create a modified iso. Using the releng profile and acting as root.
However, even when leaving the profile completely unmodified, booting it (using qemu) fails.
To create the iso I used (acc. to the wiki):
# ./build.sh -v
I don't have the full output anymore, but a big portion is here: http://pastebin.com/LdCrWxEB
It looked okay to me.
Note that booting the official iso using qemu (tested 2014.11 and 2014.09) works perfectly fine.
So, I think I must be missing something - maybe obvious ?
This is the output I got in the VM: http://s16.postimg.org/jfzbm21xh/boot_fail.png
(Sorry for the screenshot, but I can't just copy this from the VM.)
And this is the command I used for qemu:
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 512 -cdrom archlinux-2014.11.15-dual.iso
Before this, I copied the iso from releng/out/ to my home and changed owner and group to my user.
Maybe something special is needed to boot it in qemu ?
I haven't tested the baseline profile, but I think that's what I'll do next.
I can see some somewhat similar threads, of people trying to create a multi-boot usb or having problems with UEFI, e.g.:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=188504 (no solution/ I don't understand)
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=157948 (I don't think it applies here)
Thanks
Edit: Using baseline results in the same error.
Edit: Putting the image on a USB stick (using dd) results in the same error as well, so the problem isn't with qemu.
Last edited by rebootl (2014-11-16 09:22:16)

Oh, thank you so much. That fixed it!
You did not posted any boot error [...]
Well, I posted the screenshot ("output of the VM"), because I couldn't copy the text from the VM. And I guess I was too lazy to type... It contains the boot error.
Edit: In order to eventually help people find this, I'm typing the error partially, here:
:: Mounting /run/archiso/cowspace (tmpfs) filesystem, size=75%...
losetup: cannot find an unused loop device
:: Mounting '' to '/run/archiso/sfs/airootfs'
Waiting 30 seconds for device...
ERROR: '' device did not show up after 30 seconds...
Falling back to interactive prompt
You can try to fix the problem manually, log out when you are finished
sh: can't acces tty; job control turned off
[rootfs /]#
Last edited by rebootl (2014-11-16 09:32:50)

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lib32-libxi-1.4.1-1 desktop-file-utils-0.18-1
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[mkarchiso] INFO: Configuration settings
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[mkarchiso] INFO: Architecture: x86_64
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[mkarchiso] INFO: Installation directory: arch
[mkarchiso] INFO: Pacman config file: /etc/pacman.conf
[mkarchiso] INFO: Packages: base
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:: Synchronizing package databases...
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:: Repository core
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7) device-mapper 8) dhcpcd 9) diffutils 10) e2fsprogs 11) file
12) filesystem 13) findutils 14) gawk 15) gcc-libs 16) gettext
17) glibc 18) grep 19) grub 20) gzip 21) heirloom-mailx 22) inetutils
23) initscripts 24) iputils 25) jfsutils 26) less 27) licenses
28) linux 29) logrotate 30) lvm2 31) man-db 32) man-pages 33) mdadm
34) nano 35) pacman 36) pciutils 37) pcmciautils 38) perl 39) ppp
40) procps 41) psmisc 42) reiserfsprogs 43) sed 44) shadow
45) sysfsutils 46) syslog-ng 47) sysvinit 48) tar 49) texinfo 50) udev
51) usbutils 52) util-linux 53) vi 54) wget 55) which
56) wpa_supplicant 57) xfsprogs
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binutils-2.21.1-2 bzip2-1.0.6-3 gcc-libs-4.6.2-1 db-5.2.36-2
cracklib-2.8.18-2 libgssglue-0.3-1 libtirpc-0.2.2-2
pam-1.1.5-1 attr-2.4.46-1 acl-2.2.51-1 shadow-4.1.4.3-2
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util-linux-2.20.1-1 libusb-1.0.8-2 libusb-compat-0.1.3-2
pcre-8.20-1 libffi-3.0.10-1 glib2-2.30.2-1
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xz-5.0.3-1 expat-2.0.1-7 libarchive-2.8.5-2
mkinitcpio-0.8.0-3 linux-3.1.4-1 logrotate-3.8.1-1
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libpipeline-1.2.0-2 man-db-2.6.0.2-3 man-pages-3.35-1
mdadm-3.2.2-4 nano-2.2.6-2 pacman-mirrorlist-20111026-1
pacman-3.5.4-4 pcmciautils-018-1 libnl-1.1-3 libpcap-1.1.1-4
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which-2.20-5 dbus-core-1.4.16-1 wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-4
xfsprogs-3.1.7-1
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bash: required by tzselect
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smtp-server: sending cron job output via email
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perl: for chkdupexe support
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Optional dependencies for glib2
python2: for gdbus-codegen
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sh: required by update-pciids
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cvs: for autopoint tool
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Optional dependencies for grub
xfsprogs: freezing of xfs /boot in install-grub script
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ca-certificates
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Optional dependencies for heirloom-mailx
smtp-forwarder: for sending mail
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Optional dependencies for iproute2
linux-atm: ATM support
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Optional dependencies for initscripts
bridge-utils: Network bridging support
dhcpcd: DHCP network configuration
net-tools: legacy network support
wireless_tools: Wireless networking
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Optional dependencies for mkinitcpio
xz: Use lzma or xz compression for the initramfs image
bzip2: Use bzip2 compression for the initramfs image
lzop: Use lzo compression for the initramfs image
mkinitcpio-nfs-utils: Support for root filesystem on NFS
( 76/104) installing linux [######################] 100%
>>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
>>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait...
==> Building image from preset: 'default'
-> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Starting build: 3.1.4-1-ARCH
-> Parsing hook: [base]
-> Parsing hook: [udev]
-> Parsing hook: [autodetect]
-> Parsing hook: [pata]
-> Parsing hook: [scsi]
-> Parsing hook: [sata]
-> Parsing hook: [filesystems]
-> Parsing hook: [usbinput]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Image generation successful
==> Building image from preset: 'fallback'
-> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
==> Starting build: 3.1.4-1-ARCH
-> Parsing hook: [base]
-> Parsing hook: [udev]
-> Parsing hook: [pata]
-> Parsing hook: [scsi]
-> Parsing hook: [sata]
-> Parsing hook: [filesystems]
-> Parsing hook: [usbinput]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
==> Image generation successful
Optional dependencies for linux
crda: to set the correct wireless channels of your country
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netpbm: for use together with man -H command interaction in browsers
psutils: for use together with man -H command interaction in browsers
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it's recommended to create an initial
database running as root:
"/usr/bin/mandb --quiet"
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less
gzip
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fakeroot: for makepkg usage as normal user
curl: for rankmirrors usage
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logrotate: for rotating log files
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Optional dependencies for usbutils
python2: for lsusb.py usage
coreutils: for lsusb.py usage
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Optional dependencies for vi
mailx: used by the preserve command for notification
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Optional dependencies for wpa_supplicant
wpa_supplicant_gui: wpa_gui program
(104/104) installing xfsprogs [######################] 100%
Generating locales...
de_DE.UTF-8... done
en_US.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
[mkarchiso] INFO: Packages installed successfully!
[mkarchiso] INFO: Configuration settings
[mkarchiso] INFO: Command: create
[mkarchiso] INFO: Architecture: x86_64
[mkarchiso] INFO: Working directory: work/x86_64
[mkarchiso] INFO: Installation directory: arch
[mkarchiso] INFO: Pacman config file: /etc/pacman.conf
[mkarchiso] INFO: Packages: memtest86+ syslinux mkinitcpio-nfs-utils nbd curl
[mkarchiso] INFO: Installing packages to 'work/x86_64/root-image/'...
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
multilib is up to date
repo is up to date
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (7): memtest86+-4.20-1 syslinux-4.04-2 mkinitcpio-nfs-utils-0.2-2
nbd-2.9.23-1 ca-certificates-20111025-2 libssh2-1.3.0-1
curl-7.23.1-2
Total Download Size: 0.00 MB
Total Installed Size: 7.59 MB
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For using memtest86+ please modifiy your bootloaders.
If /boot is on root partitions:
==> GRUB add this to /boot/grub/menu.lst
title Memtest86+ [/boot/memtest86+/memtest.bin]
kernel (hd?,?)/boot/memtest86+/memtest.bin
==> Lilo add this to lilo.conf
image = /boot/memtest86+/memtest.bin
label = "Memtest86+"
If /boot is on seperate partition then just use /memtest86+/memtest.bin
without /boot prefix.
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==> If you want to use syslinux as your bootloader
==> edit /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg and run
==> # /usr/sbin/syslinux-install_update -i -a -m
==> to install it.
Optional dependencies for syslinux
perl-passwd-md5: For md5pass
perl-digest-sha1: For sha1pass
mtools: For mkdiskimage and syslinux
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(7/7) installing curl [######################] 100%
Generating locales...
de_DE.UTF-8... done
en_US.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
[mkarchiso] INFO: Packages installed successfully!
[mkarchiso] INFO: Configuration settings
[mkarchiso] INFO: Command: create
[mkarchiso] INFO: Architecture: x86_64
[mkarchiso] INFO: Working directory: work/x86_64
[mkarchiso] INFO: Installation directory: arch
[mkarchiso] INFO: Pacman config file: /etc/pacman.conf
tallocentoext-gpu-nvidia Packages: aif
[mkarchiso] INFO: Installing packages to 'work/x86_64/root-image/'...
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
multilib is up to date
repo is up to date
error: target not found: aif
==> ERROR: Failed to install all packages
[root@logan-archlinux releng]#
It keeps failing on aif. I don't know why either since it's there in extra when I go looking for it.
root@logan-archlinux releng]# pacman -S aif
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (2): libui-sh-2011.10.09-2 aif-2011.10.09-2
Total Download Size: 0.07 MB
Total Installed Size: 0.46 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
The same thing happens with a fresh base install in the chroot and a freesh git clone of archiso, infact that is what caused it with my older chroot that I've been working on. I updated archiso and it's been broken since.
Is this a bug?
Last edited by biltong (2011-12-05 15:15:05)

[root@logan-archlinux releng]# ./build.sh -v build single core
[mkarchiso] INFO: Configuration settings
[mkarchiso] INFO: Command: create
[mkarchiso] INFO: Architecture: x86_64
[mkarchiso] INFO: Working directory: work/x86_64
[mkarchiso] INFO: Installation directory: arch
[mkarchiso] INFO: Pacman config file: /etc/pacman.conf
[mkarchiso] INFO: Packages: base
[mkarchiso] INFO: These packages are already installed, skipping.
[mkarchiso] INFO: Configuration settings
[mkarchiso] INFO: Command: create
[mkarchiso] INFO: Architecture: x86_64
[mkarchiso] INFO: Working directory: work/x86_64
[mkarchiso] INFO: Installation directory: arch
[mkarchiso] INFO: Pacman config file: /etc/pacman.conf
[mkarchiso] INFO: Packages: memtest86+ syslinux mkinitcpio-nfs-utils nbd curl
[mkarchiso] INFO: These packages are already installed, skipping.
[mkarchiso] INFO: Configuration settings
[mkarchiso] INFO: Command: create
[mkarchiso] INFO: Architecture: x86_64
[mkarchiso] INFO: Working directory: work/x86_64
[mkarchiso] INFO: Installation directory: arch
[mkarchiso] INFO: Pacman config file: /etc/pacman.conf
gaminientsome-gpu-nvidia Packages: aif
[mkarchiso] INFO: Installing packages to 'work/x86_64/root-image/'...
mount: sysfs already mounted or /tmp/releng/work/x86_64/root-image/sys busy
mount: according to mtab, sysfs is already mounted on /tmp/releng/work/x86_64/root-image/sys
mount: proc already mounted or /tmp/releng/work/x86_64/root-image/proc busy
mount: according to mtab, proc is already mounted on /tmp/releng/work/x86_64/root-image/proc
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
multilib is up to date
repo is up to date
error: target not found: aif
==> ERROR: Failed to install all packages
Still not working.
EDIT: Fail, I forgot to save it. >_< thanks djgera!
Last edited by biltong (2011-12-05 15:14:44)

[SOLVED] Windows Guest VM in QEMU with OVMF freezing on boot

I'm having some issues booting Windows 8.1 with ovmf. I've taken out the references to vga passthrough for debugging this issue. This is a fresh installation, I have a separate installation that works just fine (albeit bloated), and I don't know where the difference comes.
The command I used:
# qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 4G -cpu host -M q35 -balloon virtio \
-drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/ovmf_x64.bin \
-drive if=pflash,format=raw,file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/ovmf_vars_x64.bin \
-smp 6,sockets=1,cores=6,threads=1 -net nic,model=virtio -net bridge,br=br0 -name win8 \
-device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi \
-device ioh3420,bus=pcie.0,addr=1c.0,multifunction=on,port=1,chassis=1,id=root.1 \
-drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/Win8.1Base-OVMF.cow,id=disk,format=qcow2,if=none -device scsi-hd,drive=disk \
-drive file=/usr/share/virtio/virtio-win.iso,id=virtiocd,if=none -device ide-cd,bus=ide.1,drive=virtiocd
I have tried his with ovmf-svn and Gerd Hoffman's repository, both giving the same effect.
It starts to boot for a while, and then freezes at a point like this:
EDIT: When I take out references to the q35 chipset, including the ioh3420 device, it will boot.
EDIT 2: After I installed the driver for my nvidia card (the point of this from the beginning), I was then able to boot with q35 chipset again. Wahoo!
Last edited by noctlos (2015-04-30 20:47:06)

Oh, thank you so much. That fixed it!
You did not posted any boot error [...]
Well, I posted the screenshot ("output of the VM"), because I couldn't copy the text from the VM. And I guess I was too lazy to type... It contains the boot error.
Edit: In order to eventually help people find this, I'm typing the error partially, here:
:: Mounting /run/archiso/cowspace (tmpfs) filesystem, size=75%...
losetup: cannot find an unused loop device
:: Mounting '' to '/run/archiso/sfs/airootfs'
Waiting 30 seconds for device...
ERROR: '' device did not show up after 30 seconds...
Falling back to interactive prompt
You can try to fix the problem manually, log out when you are finished
sh: can't acces tty; job control turned off
[rootfs /]#
Last edited by rebootl (2014-11-16 09:32:50)

[Solved] Pacman errors: "call to execv failed", system not booting

Recent upgrade (yesterday) - problems went like this:
1) pacman -Syu attempted "filesystem" upgrade and threw errors about some directories in /usr/local being 775 not 755.
2) that was because I had a non-standard package in there. I changed just those relevant directories to 755.
3) reattempted pacman -Syu but got a bunch of errors: "call to execv failed"
4) system was immediately borked. Reboot now throws me into a shell.
This is a 32 bit system.
Any ideas and help would be greatly appreciated.
Last edited by lagagnon (2013-01-30 19:10:24)

Solved my problem with the following method:
1) used Arch LiveCD. Mounted boot and / partitions
2) pacman -r /path/to/root -Syyu glibc filesystem
3) reboot gave "Unable to find root device error"
4) ran LiveCD again following these instructions: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … onger_boot

[SOLVED] Archiso doesn't work when booting

(Note for moderators: I don't know where to put this post, so I just put it here. Move it if it isn't in the right section.)
Hello
Here's my problem: I want to make a Arch live-cd with custom packages, custom hooks, ... So I searched for a way to do it. Larch works, but it's not modular. Then, I found Archiso, the official tool for Arch developers: very modular, and fits exactly to my needs.
The only problem is that when I want to boot it (with VirtualBox), a kernel panic occurs The error is:
/bin/run-init: opening console: No such file or directory
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
According to the archiso hook, it appears that when passing control to Arch Linux Initscripts, it tries to open /dev/console, and fails.
What's the problem, and how can I fix it?
devildante
Last edited by devildante (2009-03-30 19:12:02)

after building the iso and the archiso-git package from the aur several times, i still get the same error:
build log:
make all
mkarchiso -p "`cat packages.list` grub-gfx" create "work"
mkarchiso : Configuration Settings
working directory: work
image name: none
====> Creating working directory: work
====> Installing packages to 'work/root-image/'
/tmp/alpm_cgZcCL/.INSTALL: line 4: grep: command not found
Cleaning up what we can
mv "work/root-image/boot" "work/iso/"
cp -r boot-files/* "work/iso/boot/"
cp isomounts "work"
sed -i "s|@ARCH@|`uname -m`|g" "work/isomounts"
mkinitcpio -c mkinitcpio.conf -b "work/root-image" -k 2.6.29-ARCH -g "work/iso/boot/archbox".img
:: Begin build
:: Parsing hook [base]
:: Parsing hook [archiso-early]
:: Parsing hook [udev]
:: Parsing hook [archiso]
:: Parsing hook [pata]
:: Parsing hook [scsi]
:: Parsing hook [sata]
:: Parsing hook [usb]
:: Parsing hook [fw]
:: Parsing hook [filesystems]
:: Parsing hook [usbinput]
:: Generating module dependencies
:: Generating image 'work/iso/boot/archbox.img'...SUCCESS
cp -r overlay "work/"
cp -r "work/root-image/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/"* "work/iso/boot/grub"
mkarchiso -f -p grub-gfx iso "work" "`pwd`/archbox-1.00-`uname -m`".iso
mkarchiso : Configuration Settings
working directory: work
image name: /home/gentox/archbox/archbox-1.00-i686.iso
====> Generating SquashFS image for 'work/root-image'
Creating SquashFS image. This may take some time...
Image creation done in 10.57 minutes.
====> Generating SquashFS image for 'work/overlay'
Creating SquashFS image. This may take some time...
Image creation done in 0.00 minutes.
====> Making bootable image
Creating ISO image...
mkarchiso -f -p grub-gfx usb "work" "`pwd`/archbox-1.00-`uname -m`".img
mkarchiso : Configuration Settings
working directory: work
image name: /home/gentox/archbox/archbox-1.00-i686.img
====> Generating SquashFS image for 'work/root-image'
Removing old SquashFS image...done.
Creating SquashFS image. This may take some time...
Image creation done in 9.20 minutes.
====> Generating SquashFS image for 'work/overlay'
Removing old SquashFS image...done.
Creating SquashFS image. This may take some time...
Image creation done in 0.00 minutes.
====> Making bootable image
1096899+0 Datensätze ein
1096899+0 Datensätze aus
561612288 Bytes (562 MB) kopiert, 10,7464 s, 52,3 MB/s
mke2fs 1.41.6 (30-May-2009)
Dateisystem-Label=
OS-Typ: Linux
Blockgröße=4096 (log=2)
Fragmentgröße=4096 (log=2)
34320 Inodes, 137112 Blöcke
0 Blöcke (0.00%) reserviert für den Superuser
Erster Datenblock=0
Maximale Dateisystem-Blöcke=142606336
5 Blockgruppen
32768 Blöcke pro Gruppe, 32768 Fragmente pro Gruppe
6864 Inodes pro Gruppe
Superblock-Sicherungskopien gespeichert in den Blöcken:
32768, 98304
Schreibe Inode-Tabellen: erledigt
Schreibe Superblöcke und Dateisystem-Accountinginformationen: erledigt
Das Dateisystem wird automatisch nach jeweils 32 Einhäng-Vorgängen bzw.
alle 180 Tage überprüft, je nachdem, was zuerst eintritt. Veränderbar mit
tune2fs -c oder -t .
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/sound, it will be ignored in a future release.
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/framebuffer_blacklist.pacsave, it will be ignored in a future release.
63+0 Datensätze ein
63+0 Datensätze aus
32256 Bytes (32 kB) kopiert, 0,000226286 s, 143 MB/s
Warnung: /home/gentox/archbox/archbox-1.00-i686.img ist kein blockorientiertes Gerät
Festplatte /home/gentox/archbox/archbox-1.00-i686.img: Die Geometrie konnte nicht festgestellt werden
Festplatte /home/gentox/archbox/archbox-1.00-i686.img: 68 Zylinder, 255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spur
sfdisk: FEHLER: Sektor 0 hat keine MS-DOS-Signatur
/home/gentox/archbox/archbox-1.00-i686.img: nicht erkannte Partitiontabellentyp
Alte Aufteilung:
Keine Partitionen gefunden
Warnung: gegebene Größe (1096899) überschreitet maximal erlaubte Größe (1092357)
Neue Aufteilung:
Warnung: Die Partition sieht aus, als sie gemacht worden
für C/H/S=*/73/6 (anstelle von 68/255/63).
Für diese Auflistung nehme ich diese Geometrie an.
Einheit = Sektoren von 512 Bytes, Zählung beginnt bei 0
Gerät boot. Anfang Ende #Sektoren Id System
/home/gentox/archbox/archbox-1.00-i686.img1 * 63 1096961 1096899 83 Linux
Anfang: (c,h,s) erwartet (0,10,4) gefunden (0,1,1)
Ende: (c,h,s) erwartet (1023,72,6) gefunden (68,72,6)
/home/gentox/archbox/archbox-1.00-i686.img2 0 - 0 0 Leer
/home/gentox/archbox/archbox-1.00-i686.img3 0 - 0 0 Leer
/home/gentox/archbox/archbox-1.00-i686.img4 0 - 0 0 Leer
Warnung: Partition 1 reicht über das Ende der Platte hinaus
Die neue Partitionstabelle wurde erfolgreich geschrieben
Die Partitionstabelle wird erneut gelesen…
BLKRRPART: Unpassender IOCTL (I/O-Control) für das Gerät
Wenn Sie eine DOS-Partition angelegt oder geändert haben, z. B. /dev/foo7,
dann nehmen Sie dd(1), um die ersten 512 Bytes auf 0 zu setzen:
„dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo7 bs=512 count=1" (siehe fdisk(8)).
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
completions of a device/filename. ]
grub> device (hd0) /home/gentox/archbox/archbox-1.00-i686.img
grub> root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 16 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+16 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
Done.
building dir:
http://root.stcim.de/arch0r/archbox.tgz
best regards :>
Last edited by arch0r (2009-06-09 19:38:09)

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