Archiso error

Question

so im building a custom iso using archiso. im currently in the buildphase and already solved some small problems (such as adding packages from aur). however i now have a bit of a weird error. after all the packages are downloaded and installed into root-image i get the following error:
[mkarchiso] INFO: Configuration settings
[mkarchiso] INFO: Command: run
[mkarchiso] INFO: Architecture: i686
[mkarchiso] INFO: Working directory: work/i686
[mkarchiso] INFO: Installation directory: arch
[mkarchiso] INFO: Run command: /root/customize_root_image.sh
Installation finished. No error reported.
Operation failed: Invalid argument
i google the warning and found out that it has to do with grub config. i commented out the grub config lines in the customize_root_image.sh and then the warning goes away but not the operation failed error. Also i thought that customize_root_image.sh is run at install of the iso, not when building the iso so thats why i put the grub commands in, but apperently im wrong?
this is my customize_root_image.sh file:
#!/bin/bash
set -e -u
grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck /dev/sda
cp /usr/share/locale/en\@quot/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo /boot/grub/locale/en.mo
usermod -s /usr/bin/zsh root
cp -aT /etc/skel/ /root/
mkdir -p /home/frank/.config/openbox
cp /etc/xdg/openbox/* /home/frank/.config/openbox
mkdir -p /usr/share/lxde/pcmanfm
cp -a /etc/xdg/pcmanfm/default/pcmanfm.conf /usr/share/lxde/pcmanfm/pcmanfm.conf
chown -R frank /home/frank/
systemctl enable pacman-init.service choose-mirror.service wice wicd slim
anyone knows what im doing wrong? i didnt put the useradd in because i copied the shadows users and group file to the root-image
Last edited by williewonka (2013-08-14 14:48:15)

Answer 1

qinohe wrote:
williewonka wrote:
#!/bin/bash
set -e -u
sed -i 's/#\(en_US\.UTF-8\)/\1/' /etc/locale.gen
locale-gen
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /etc/localtime
usermod -s /usr/bin/zsh root
cp -aT /etc/skel/ /root/
sed -i "s/#Server/Server/g" /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
systemctl enable multi-user.target pacman-init.service choose-mirror.service
anyone knows what im doing wrong? i didnt put the useradd in because i copied the shadows users and group file to the root-image
Yeah, the script needs to be something like, I edited your quote.
you need to create these things in you skelleton...
grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck /dev/sda
cp /usr/share/locale/en\@quot/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo /boot/grub/locale/en.mo
mkdir -p /home/frank/.config/openbox
cp /etc/xdg/openbox/* /home/frank/.config/openbox
mkdir -p /usr/share/lxde/pcmanfm
cp -a /etc/xdg/pcmanfm/default/pcmanfm.conf /usr/share/lxde/pcmanfm/pcmanfm.conf
chown -R frank /home/frank/
ok i will remake it with only the basic things and all the rest in the skeleton altough i did the locale in the skeleton where you say i need to put it in the script. als should chown not be in the script?