Hi David,

Did you end up finding a way to get live-boot to work with the 4.3 kernel
in jessie-backports?  I'm hitting the same issue as you.

Thanks,
Corey

On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 5:36 AM, David Ansart <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thursday 19 November 2015 18:59:42 David Ansart wrote:
>> > > Does it work without backports enabled?
>> > > I build an image (with live-build 5.0~a11-1) from a config I had
>> laying
>> > > around with jessie, but without backports and that seems to work.
>> >
>> > Yes. If i disable backport, the iso boots correctly.
>>
>> Without backports you'd get linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 and with backports
>> I
>> think you'd get linux-image-4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 so I'm guessing the
>> problem is
>> indeed with overlayfs and I don't know how to fix that. It could be that
>> it is
>> supported but you forget some config setting or it just doesn't work
>> properly.
>>
>> What you could try is create a preference file so that the kernel is taken
>> from jessie and not jessie-backports (ie pin to version 3.16.* or sth like
>> that) and see whether it works then. If it does work, you could stick with
>> that and/or dive deeper into getting it to work with overlayfs.
>>
>
> I know but I prefer a more generic solution. I do not like adding
> exceptions.
> If I could know the package to be watched.
>
> I have installed Live boot 5.0~a11-2 0
> I have added "union=overlay" into bootappend-live : --bootappend-live
> "boot=live union=overlay components locales=en_US.UTF-8 hostname=minimal
> username=user noautologin"
> But it isn't work.
>
> Live boot must be compatible with overlayfs, must not I ?
>
> Must i install other things  ?
>
> #
> >----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> lb config noauto --distribution jessie --binary-images iso-hybrid
> --architectures amd64 --linux-flavours amd64 \
> --archive-areas "main contrib" --apt-indices false --backports true
> --updates true \
> --memtest memtest86+ \
> --mirror-bootstrap http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ --mirror-binary
> http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ \
> --bootappend-live "boot=live union=overlay components locales=en_US.UTF-8
> hostname=minimal \
> username=user noautologin"
>
> cat /dev/null > config/package-lists/my.list.chroot
> echo task-english >> config/package-lists/my.list.chroot
> echo task-ssh-server >> config/package-lists/my.list.chroot
>
> echo '! Packages Priority standard' >
> config/package-lists/standard.list.chroot
>
> #@source: http://live.debian.net/manual/4.x/html/live-manual.en.html
> #echo "live-tools user-setup sudo eject" >
> config/package-lists/necessaire.list.chroot
>
> cat > config/archives/backport.pref.chroot <<EOF
> Package: *
> Pin: release n=jessie
> Pin-Priority: 500
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release n=jessie-backports
> Pin-Priority: 500
> EOF
> #
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>

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