Bugzilla – Bug 666504
LiveCD USB boot broken
Last modified: 2011-02-19 20:35:33 UTC
LiveCD USB boot reports "Couldn't find Live image configuration file" last known-good version is from 2011-01-09 http://openqa.opensuse.org/results/openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-x86_64-Build1002-usbboot first broken version is from 2011-01-11 http://openqa.opensuse.org/results/openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-x86_64-Build1005-usbboot in between was this commit http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-commit/2011-01/msg00169.html (there were also many other commits, but this one was the most likely culprit) Steps To Reproduce: qemu-img create test.img 2G dd if=$iso of=test.img bs=1M conv=notrunc qemu-kvm -hda test.img -m 1000
could you boot with kiwidebug=1 and provide the log file /var/log/boot.kiwi (in case of usb you can store it on the stick somewhere) The code in that area hasn't changed at all. my guess is a isohybrid problem or something coolo does after kiwi created the iso image Coolo ?
Created attachment 409757 [details] kiwi log For some reason, the first partition (vda1) goes missing on boot, but the second partition starts right after the first one ended.
if fdisk shows it's usage() function, I think the kiwi code is wrong - I don't touch anything about the initrd
what's wrong with fdisk -ul /dev/vda the code in kiwi hasn't changed at all at that point and it also works on 11.3. So what has changed here ? any difference if you don't use the virtio layer in qemu ?
fdisk -ul always gives usage, but fdisk -lu and fdisk -u -l work - so can we use these instead?
why do you assign it to me? 11.4 has a stricter fdisk and -u doesn't take any l argument - and it was the same in 11.3, but it wasn't checked. Not sure what you want, but I guess you want fdisk -u=sectors -l /dev/vda
man and who the hell changed this ? I will use -u -l for now in kiwi reassigning to fdisk maintainer
I did a short compare of the fdisk tool and found that fdisk's default behavior has changed from cylinders to sectors. I'm sorry but this is a really really bad change because it will invalidate any input the tools gave to fdisk with the expectation it calculates in cylinders even more worse is that in sector mode fdisk doesn't suggest any start and stop values as it still does in cylinder mode So I'm really unhappy with that change and suggest to do at least the following: 1) don't change the default geometry mode if it was not set via the -u option stay with the cylinder mode here Thanks a ton
(In reply to comment #4) > what's wrong with > fdisk -ul /dev/vda > the code in kiwi hasn't changed at all at that point and it also works > on 11.3. So what has changed here ? any difference if you don't use the > virtio layer in qemu ? This has nothing to do with qemu. I get the same error trying to boot on bare metal.
I've just done a successful liveusb install of 32-bit, KDE, build1038. So it seems to work now, whatever someone did or didn't do ;-)
yes I have fixed it in kiwi
Unfortunately, with build 1038 of the GNOME LiveCD (x86-64), I still get the same problem.
hi all, i have tried at least 10 times but How the hell the first partition is disappearing. :P :P Now how can i get the build1038? the download page has build1034 :(
http://download.opensuse.org/factory/iso/
Thank you very much, Sorry for an offtopic, but does there very much changes between build1038 and build1034 ? I have build1034 and feed that to zsync for build1038 give me only 7% match :( i hoped for over 60% match. Now i need to download more than 600MB of data. :(
*** Bug 668141 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Downloading KDE LiveCD-Build1038 from http://download.opensuse.org/factory/iso/ Is it ok to make USB stick with ImageWriter in Windows, or it's better to use Linux version?
well, Build1038 bypasses moment where build1034 was stuck. But than I get several core dumps - before I get login. So, build1038 is not bootable. :( P.S. OpenSUSE 11.3 and 11.4 Factory Milestone5 with kernel 2.6.37-RC5 work fine on this noteboook (MSI S271).
Finally with Build 1044 I have a bootable USB. Thanks for fixing this!
*** Bug 668184 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Build 1044 still doesn't boot for me. I see series of kernel core-dumps on console, no KDE login. PID: 2382 comm: flush-7:0 Tainted 2.6.37-20-default Than stack dump, Call trace.
This has been working on openQA with all LiveCDs since Build1038 / 2011-01-29
Build 1056 still doens't work for me. It was latest build I tested. I provided additional information to Bug 669556 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=669556
Same as in comment 23. I tried openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build1056-i686.iso and ran into the same "Couldn't find Live image configuration file" problem. Perhaps this needs to be reopened?
the bug discussed here is fixed. please open a new one and provide your kiwi logs (see the first comments how)
Done. Created Bug 673597 with the kiwi log file. HTH