Hi William
On 03/17/2011 06:15 AM, William Shu wrote:
Thank you very much Urs.
Below are the requested outputs: (A) for losetup; and (B) for dracut. It seems
the overlay is not being found!
On a related matter, you say livecd-tools and liveusb-creator are part of the live iso's,
but I had to "yum install" them before I could use them in making the USB!
Thanks for the debug info.
You are right. liveusb-creator is not part of Live iso's. But livecd-tools and therefore livecd-iso-to-disk should be
installed. However, doing "yum update livecd-tools" is always a good idea.
Yes, the overlay is not found in your case:
dracut: + mkdir /overlayfs
dracut: + mount -n -t auto UUID=4C04-9372 /overlayfs
dracut: + [ -f /overlayfs/LiveOS/overlay--4C04-9372 -a -w
/overlayfs/LiveOS/overlay--4C04-9372 ]
dracut: + umount -l /overlayfs
dracut: + [ -z ]
dracut: + [ -n UUID=4C04-9372 -a -n /LiveOS/overlay--4C04-9372 ]
dracut: + warn Unable to find persistent overlay; using temporary
Can you quickly check, if the overlay file is on your Live USB drive and if it is writable (w)? In your case the overlay
file should be
/LiveOS/overlay--4C04-9372
You might want to reproduce the mounting of your USB stick (as done be dracut) on a SL6 system. Plugin the stick. If it
gets auto-mounted, un-mount it. As root try
mkdir /overlayfs
mount -n -t auto UUID=4C04-9372 /overlayfs
[ -f /overlayfs/LiveOS/overlay--4C04-9372 -a -w /overlayfs/LiveOS/overlay--4C04-9372 ]
&& echo ok
Cheers,
Urs
