On 2005-06-14 @ 16:03:58 (week 24) Clive Menzies wrote: > DFS (debian from scratch) is a great Live 'CD' with lots of tools and it > boots a grub prompt: > > http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs/html/dfs.html
It seems like a very nice tool, but I couldn't get it to work. First I had to edit /etc/dfsbuild/dfs.cfg, because the mirror setting for [repo amd64] was pointing to a non-existent location (may be due to the recent move of the repository). I changed it to mirror = http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-amd64/ which seems to work. Then I commented out the default mirror setting pointing to localhost as it caused a fatal error when trying to rm some files. Now it bails out with: Creating Packages files... Building: unstable dists/unstable/main/binary-amd64 Packages Creating Release files... Building: unstable Release Building: unstable Contents All done, exiting. Running: rm -v /home/hdv/tmp/dfs//target/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_sid_main_binary-amd64_Packages /home/hdv/tmp/dfs//target/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_unstable_Release removed `/home/hdv/tmp/dfs//target/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_sid_main_binary-amd64_Packages' removed `/home/hdv/tmp/dfs//target/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_unstable_Release' Fatal error: exception Not_found Anyway, I built a Kanotix-64 Live CD and ran "grub-install /dev/hda" from that. Sadly it didn't solve the problem. The system still sees no boot device there after rebooting. Grx HdV