Re: Using Debian Live
John, On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:23:32 -0400 John Lauterbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There appears to be either a lack of pointers to information or the information needed to use Debian Live to help repair a system that will not boot on account of a repairable hard drive error. In particular, I would like to run fsck on /dev/hda1 (or whatever it is called under Debian Live). Attempts to do that as well as similar activities on existing hard drives seem to result in less than common error messages. What exact commands did you attempt and what are the actual error messages? Debian Live does nothing special with regards to naming devices. You might be seeing differences due to different drivers from different kernels, though (e.g. sata drives could be named /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, etc. or /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc. depending on which driver is used). But this is a general Linux question, not a Debian Live specific one. That is why we have no doc for it. That being said, anybody can start a tutorial on how to use Debian Live for common rescue jobs on our wiki if they wish. Regards, Ben -- ,-. nSLUGhttp://www.nslug.ns.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] \`' Debian http://www.debian.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] ` [ gpg 395C F3A4 35D3 D247 1387 2D9E 5A94 F3CA 0B27 13C8 ] [ pgp 7F DA 09 4B BA 2C 0D E0 1B B1 31 ED C6 A9 39 4F ] ___ debian-live-devel mailing list debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
Re: Using Debian Live
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 10:23:32AM -0400, John Lauterbach wrote: To Whom It May Concern: There appears to be either a lack of pointers to information or the information needed to use Debian Live to help repair a system that will not boot on account of a repairable hard drive error. In particular, I would like to run fsck on /dev/hda1 (or whatever it is called under Debian Live). Attempts to do that as well as similar activities on existing hard drives seem to result in less than common error messages. Perhaps you can clarify the situation. What error messages? ___ debian-live-devel mailing list debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
Using Debian Live
To Whom It May Concern: There appears to be either a lack of pointers to information or the information needed to use Debian Live to help repair a system that will not boot on account of a repairable hard drive error. In particular, I would like to run fsck on /dev/hda1 (or whatever it is called under Debian Live). Attempts to do that as well as similar activities on existing hard drives seem to result in less than common error messages. Perhaps you can clarify the situation. Best regards, John John H. Lauterbach, Ph.D., DABT 211 Old Club Court Macon, GA 31210-4708 Tel. 478-474-3027 Fax 478-474-0117 Cell 478-731-2966___ debian-live-devel mailing list debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
Re: Using Debian Live
There's really nothing Debian-Live specific to do. Just use the standard tools. The documents at tldp.org are probably your best bet- there's probably no changes in how to repair ext2/3 filesystems since sarge. I don't know what the big picture is of what you are trying to accomplish but if it was me, I'd mount with '-o ro', rsync or tar off the important stuff, and reinstall. Fsck can repair a lot of stuff but to me a corrupt root inode is indication that there's probably been a lot of corruption and I wouldn't even bother trying to fix the partition. Oh, and before you trust this drive for your data again, make sure you test every sector, e.g. mkfs.ext3 -j -c -c (it's destructive, so don't skip ahead to this step!) Tony On 10/11/07, John Lauterbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are right. My error. Things worked right after I rebooted from CD-ROM; maybe loose nut at wheel. Bad news was that I could not boot from hard drive because of a corrupt root inode as found by ext2fsck. This brings more opportunity. How do I fix this problem with Debian Live, OR are things so bad that I need to reformat hard drive again. I would be glad to write help pages for you, but I don't know what I am doing. John - Original Message - From: Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Lauterbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 12:56 PM Subject: Re: Using Debian Live On 10/11/07, John Lauterbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To Whom It May Concern: There appears to be either a lack of pointers to information or the information needed to use Debian Live to help repair a system that will not boot on account of a repairable hard drive error. In particular, I would like to run fsck on /dev/hda1 (or whatever it is called under Debian Live). Attempts to do that as well as similar activities on existing hard drives seem to result in less than common error messages. Perhaps you can clarify the situation. Perhaps you can clarify the errors. I've had no such experiences. -- Best Regards. Please keep in touch. ___ debian-live-devel mailing list debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
Re: apt-cacher and debian-live --debian-installer enabled (Re: d-l and installer, woes)
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 01:29:59PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 05:56:22PM +0100, Mark Hindley wrote: I have just uploaded apt-cacher 1.5.5 which should allow proxying of vmlinuz and initrd files, as requested for Debian Live. I would be grateful if you could give it a try and confirm it works as you expect. Hi Mark, I haven't checked yet. I just tried and found that d-l was broken, so I can confirm that the new apt-cacher allows building an image with --debian-installer enabled. Thanks Mark. Justin ___ debian-live-devel mailing list debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
d-l loose ends in my understanding
Hi All,
There's some thing I've never understood about d-l and don't recall
seeing documentation for them either. Having dabled in the source I'm
still not sure what they're intended to do.
What are all the LH_CACHE* options for? When are they intended to
help?
Are the .stage/* files supposed to be removed manually to cause things
to be rebuilt or just munged by the various {,sub{,sub,{sub}}}tools
and lh_clean?
When are the various lh_clean arguments supposed to be useful?
What does binary mean (vs. chroot)? Is this the entire ISO vs.
the squashFS?
What is the plan for error handling? I don't even know what's causing
errors to be ignored right now but it seems to be a known and
acknowledged problem.
Justin
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Cannot build USB image
Hi guys, I'm running lh on the current Ubuntu beta. I'm trying to build an USB image. This is what I do: mkdir usblive cd usblive/ lh_config -b usb-hdd lh_build This takes a while installing and downloading and you know what... After that I have an image in ./chroot (which is strange because the ISO building process puts the image directly into ./ ) ls -l chroot/binary.img -- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 95420416 2007-10-11 23:31 chroot/binary.img However, that image seems to have no content at all: mkdir /mnt/test mount -o loop,offset=512 chroot/binary.img /mnt/test/ ls -l /mnt/test/ -- insgesamt 0 If a specify the grub bootloader the image has content but doesn't boot (obviously, because grub cannot boot of an USB stick) As I am currently preparing an article for a german magazine on creating USB boot images using live-helper any help would greatly appreciated. Thank you, /eno ___ debian-live-devel mailing list debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
Bug#446306: d-l aufs selects unionfs-modules
Package: live-helper Version: 1.0~a31-1 lh_config --union-filesystem aufs initializes LH_LINUX_PACKAGES to unionfs-modules. ___ debian-live-devel mailing list debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
Re: Cannot build USB image
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running lh on the current Ubuntu beta. I'm trying to build an USB image. don't use live-helper from ubuntu, it's not maintained there and thus outdated. please install the version from sid (it's just shell scripts, no depends, can be installed without any trouble on ubuntu). This takes a while installing and downloading and you know what... After that I have an image in ./chroot (which is strange because the ISO building process puts the image directly into ./ ) ls -l chroot/binary.img that's not strange, that's normal.. the build is chrooted in order to use the toolchain from the distribution we are building. However, that image seems to have no content at all: your build-process seem to have stopped, you need to give more information (such as the last messages on the screen before it fails). a specify the grub bootloader the image has content but doesn't boot (obviously, because grub cannot boot of an USB stick) the automatic creation of usb images with grub is currently not supported, use syslinux. As I am currently preparing an article for a german magazine on creating USB boot images using live-helper any help would greatly appreciated. which one that is? have you read this one? http://www.linuxmagazin.de/online_artikel/workshop_debian_live_system_mit_etch -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ ___ debian-live-devel mailing list debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
Re: Bug#446306: d-l aufs selects unionfs-modules
Justin Pryzby wrote: Package: live-helper Version: 1.0~a31-1 lh_config --union-filesystem aufs initializes LH_LINUX_PACKAGES to unionfs-modules. Doh! Sending this to the list also (already sent to the bugnumber) I had this problem too, in 1.0~a30, but I didnt see it as a bug rather as something that can be misunderstood. The --union-filesystem LH_UNION_FILESYSTEM) is as I have understood it only the kernel arg and LH_LINUX_PACKAGES is something that you have to set separately. When you do that (changes unionfs-modules-2.6 to aufs-modules-2.6) it works. See an earlier mailthread last week. But as soon as unionfs-modules is available for sid (its not there now, but if I recall correctly it soon should be), that default will work out of the box. It says that LH_LINUX_PACKAGES default should be autodetected though, Im not sure what that means here. Maybe someone can explain that. regards //Peter -- bitrunner 0708-460260 Andra Långgatan 28 41327 Göteborg Sweden ___ debian-live-devel mailing list debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
