looks like syslinux is not making it into the image for some reason, i couldn't find it when booting from a cd image (generic) or on my installed 0.7.2 system (via), i believe it should be installed in /usr/bin
On 11/08/2010, at 11:12 PM, Guy Neale wrote: > I tell lies, /oldroot is OK, /oldroot/cdrom is empty. > > Looks like I can get the files to copy if I use dmesg to find where the cdrom > is connected (/dev/hdc in my case) and then manually mount /oldroot/cdrom > eg. mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /oldroot/cdrom > > Files copied to /dev/hda1 ok , but still no boot eg."This is not a bootable > disk. blah blah." , astinstall still errors with /usr/sbin/astinstall: line > 118: syslinux: command not found > > pbx ~ # mount > rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) > /dev/root on /oldroot type ext2 (rw) > none on / type tmpfs (rw,size=131072k) > none on /proc type proc (rw) > none on /dev type tmpfs (rw,size=200k) > none on /var type tmpfs (rw,size=5000k) > none on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,size=10000k) > none on /sys type sysfs (rw) > none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=600) > usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) > none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) > /dev/hdc on /oldroot/cdrom type iso9660 (ro) - this is my manual mount > /dev/hda1 on /tmp/runnix type vfat > (rw,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1) - this is a > astinstall mount before astinstall umounts > > pbx ~ # cd /tmp/runnix/ > pbx runnix # ls > boot.msg os runnix runnix.img syslinux.cfg > > > On 11/08/2010, at 8:08 PM, Guy Neale wrote: > >> I've created a VM and booted from an ISO image. /oldroot is mounted to >> /dev/root but I found no /dev/root or /dev/cdrom device. The /oldroot >> directory is empty >> >> This is the output if I run astinstall from the console. not to sure where >> to go from here. >> >> Installing to /dev/hda... >> >> tar: can't open '/oldroot/cdrom/runnix-*.tar.gz': No such file or directory >> cat: can't open '/tmp/runnix-*/mbr.bin': No such file or directory >> /usr/sbin/astinstall: line 119: syslinux: command not found >> cp: cannot stat '/tmp/runnix-*/rootfs_vfat/*': No such file or directory >> cp: cannot stat '/oldroot/cdrom/os/root.squashfs': No such file or directory >> cp: cannot stat '/oldroot/cdrom/os/astlinux-0.7.2.run.conf': No such file or >> directory >> cp: cannot stat '/oldroot/cdrom/isolinux/initrd.img': No such file or >> directory >> /usr/sbin/astinstall: line 134: cd: /tmp/runnix/os: No such file or directory >> sha1sum: can't open 'astlinux-0.7.2.run': No such file or directory >> touch: /tmp/runnix/os/astflag: No such file or directory >> >> >> On 10/08/2010, at 1:01 PM, Darrick Hartman wrote: >> >>> Philip Prindeville wrote: >>>> On 8/9/10 3:15 PM, John Novack wrote: >>>>> Any plans to fix the install script on the ISO? A couple of folks I was >>>>> trying to interest in AstLinux report that install from the ISO is broken. >>>>> >>>>> Also, one wag installed AstLinux to an 80 Gig Hard drive, and after a >>>>> couple of attempts discovered that the timer built into the setup web >>>>> page wasn't long enough for an 80 gig drive to finish formatting! >>>>> >>>>> Don't ask me why he wanted to install on an 80 Gig drive! >>>>> >>>>> John Novack >>>>> >>>> >>>> Actually, it seems to be a fairly trivial fix... I'm guessing it's a one >>>> liner. >>>> >>>> I just don't have the time nor the VM set up to quickly do >>>> testing/debugging. >>>> >>>> Someone previously pointed out that it was looking for the image at a >>>> particular mount point, but said that wasn't present... which was mildly >>>> helpful. >>>> >>>> What would have been even more helpful would have been telling us what was >>>> mounted, and where, at that exact moment. >>>> >>>> It could just be that everything needed is present... just not in the >>>> right places... and a simple one line path change needs to happen. >>> >>> It's more than one line, but not too much more than that. >>> >>> It's a matter of reading through the bat files on the iso. There really >>> could be one iso with all of the install images on it. That would >>> definitely be a few more lines. >>> >>> It's on the list, but not at the top of the list. If someone wanted to >>> make an attempt at this, we'd accept that work. >>> >>> Darrick >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> This SF.net email is sponsored by >>> >>> Make an app they can't live without >>> Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Astlinux-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users >>> >>> Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to >>> [email protected]. >>> >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This SF.net email is sponsored by >> >> Make an app they can't live without >> Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Astlinux-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users >> >> Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to >> [email protected]. >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by > > Make an app they can't live without > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > [email protected]. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected].
