Hi Jiason, You are not alone :-), I have a similar problem in Ubuntu 8.10.
I did the following to get an idea of the problem: I took exactly the same MIC version and installed on Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 8.10. Then I created on every system the same targets with identical fsets. For these targets, I created the LiveUSBRW images, LiveUSBRW8.04 and LiveUSBRW8.10. I took a look at the differences. The most striking difference was that the FAT16 file system header seems to be corrupt (or at least different) in LiveUsBRW8.10 whereas the FAT16 file system header is okay in the LiveUSBRW8.04 image. The reason seems to be that MIC is executing the mkfs.vfat from the host system and not within the chroot environment. Therefore there is a slightly different mkfs.vfat used in MIC on Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 8.10. I attached a patch to the bug #267 http://bugzilla.moblin.org/attachment.cgi?id=83 to solve the problem and make mkfs.vfat execute in the chroot system and, thus, host independent. I tested only with qemu so far, it works on my Ubuntu 8.10 system. I would appreciate if anyone is testing it on their system and provides some feedback. I took the most recent MIC from git and applied the patch. Thanks & best regards, Marcel >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Jiason Li >Sent: Donnerstag, 25. Dezember 2008 07:59 >To: [email protected] >Subject: [Moblin Dev] "Boot error" prompted in a real machine, mic ver. >0.48, ubuntu 8.10 > >Hi, >I'm new to the list, >thus any suggestions are welcomed. :D > >The problem is, >that if an image was created with mic (0.48) on ubuntu 8.10, >then it didn't boot, and just prompted a "Boot error" message. >but if an image was created with mic (0.48) on ubuntu 8.04, >then it did boot well. > >I discoverd that on bugzilla, >mitsutaka and prajwal did mentioned a similar problem (bug #112 and #267), >and the difference is that it did happened to a REAL machine instead of a >VM. > >so I decided to create images on ubuntu 8.04 running in virtualbox as a >workaround, >since I'm using ubuntu 8.10. > >if there is anyone having the same problem, >and knowing something about it, >please reply to me, >thanks. :D > >ps. >git version of mic didn't solve the problem, >even worse, >images couldn't do install at all, >there were always messages complaining about harddisks not found. > >sincerely, >jiason >20081225 >_______________________________________________ >Moblin dev Mailing List >[email protected] > >To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: >https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on >http://moblin.org once logged in. > >For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: >http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists --------------------------------------------------------------------- Intel GmbH Dornacher Strasse 1 85622 Feldkirchen/Muenchen Germany Sitz der Gesellschaft: Feldkirchen bei Muenchen Geschaeftsfuehrer: Douglas Lusk, Peter Gleissner, Hannes Schwaderer Registergericht: Muenchen HRB 47456 Ust.-IdNr. VAT Registration No.: DE129385895 Citibank Frankfurt (BLZ 502 109 00) 600119052 This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
