Re: [CentOS] buildinstall cannot find modules
Nobody has any idea on this one? Can someone perhaps recommend another list or forum where more people might be familiar with buildinstall? Perhaps I'll try the anaconda list... On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 06:21:23PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thusly: When using buildinstall and CentOS 5.2 to create my own CD minus a bunch of unneeded RPM's and plus a few of my custom RPM's I find that the install CD that gets build does not install an initrd which renders the system unbootable. I also notice that when I run buildinstall with the -debug option it says: unpacking /var/www/html/centos/5.2/os/x86_64/CentOS/kernel-2.6.18-92.el5.x86_64.rpm.x86_64 Building initrd.img Module 3c501 not found in kernel rpm Module 3c503 not found in kernel rpm Module 3c505 not found in kernel rpm and so on for many kernel modules. I notice that the filename it says it is unpacking ends with .x86_64.rpm.x86_64. Is that normal? I google'd and found someone else saying theirs did the same thing. Could this be related to why I'm not ending up with an initrd being installed? -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org pgpW1vtEJSv1i.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Problems making custom isolinux.cfg
I have added a few custom RPM's to my CentOS 5.2 CD, dropped a kickstart.cfg file in the root of the CD, and now want to change the isolinux.cfg in the boot.iso so that it will automatically do a kickstart install when the CD boots up. I am using buildinstall to make the ISO. I edited the isolinux.cfg in /isolinux in my CentOS 5.2 distribution tree off of which I am building my ISO. But after buildinstall runs the isolinux.cfg is changed back! Where is it getting the original from? Where should I be changing it to get my modified isolinux.cfg into my cd? Just to get around the isolinux.cfg issue manually I tried booting and at the prompt I say: linux ks=cdrom:/kickstart.cfg But it says that it cannot find the kickstart.cfg file. Is it expecting it in the root of the boot.iso or of the CD? I put it in the root of the CD. I can mount the CD and see that it is there. I can't figure out how to put it in the root of the boot.iso (if it even needs to go there) because apparently that is getting remade by the buildinstall also and I'm not sure where it is getting the contents from. Here is the entire process I use for building and burning the ISO: /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/buildinstall --version 5 --product CentOS --comps /var/www/html/centos/5.2/os/x86_64/repodata/comps.xml --release MyCentOS-5 --prodpath CentOS /var/www/html/centos/5.2/os/x86_64 mkisofs -R -J -T -r -l -d -allow-multidot -allow-leading-dots -no-bak -o /var/www/html/centos/5.2/isos/MyCentOS-5.2-x86_64.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table /var/www/html/centos/5.2/os/x86_64/ cdrecord blank=fast -dev=/dev/sg1 -v -eject /var/www/html/centos/5.2/isos/MyCentOS-5.2-x86_64.iso Any help would be greatly appreciated! -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org pgpJbcwo2xe8y.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] buildinstall cannot find modules
When using buildinstall and CentOS 5.2 to create my own CD minus a bunch of unneeded RPM's and plus a few of my custom RPM's I find that the install CD that gets build does not install an initrd which renders the system unbootable. I also notice that when I run buildinstall with the -debug option it says: unpacking /var/www/html/centos/5.2/os/x86_64/CentOS/kernel-2.6.18-92.el5.x86_64.rpm.x86_64 Building initrd.img Module 3c501 not found in kernel rpm Module 3c503 not found in kernel rpm Module 3c505 not found in kernel rpm and so on for many kernel modules. I notice that the filename it says it is unpacking ends with .x86_64.rpm.x86_64. Is that normal? I google'd and found someone else saying theirs did the same thing. Could this be related to why I'm not ending up with an initrd being installed? -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org pgpQCbMVdUkym.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] buildinstall problems
Hello all! I am trying to make a stripped down CentOS 5.2 distro which will all fit on a single CD containing just the base and a few other packages I need. I run buildinstall like so: sudo /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/buildinstall --debug --version 5 --product CentOS --comps /var/www/html/centos/5.2/os/x86_64/repodata/comps.xml --release My-CentOS-5.2 --prodpath CentOS /var/www/html/centos/5.2/os/x86_64 and when I do so I run into the following errors: Expanding packages... retrieving timezones Creating nsswitch.conf Creating libuser.conf Creating fedorakmod.conf Creating multipath.conf Fixing up /etc/man.config to point into /mnt/sysimage Running mkfontdir... Creating SELinux policy... libsemanage.semanage_install_sandbox: genhomedircon returned error code 1. Getting pango modules Getting gtk2 input method modules Getting gtk2 gdk-pixbuf loaders Scrubbing trees... /tmp/treedir.9508/image-template cp: cannot create regular file `/tmp/treedir.9508/image-template/usr/bin/raidstart': No such file or directory cp: cannot create regular file `/tmp/treedir.9508/image-template/usr/bin/raidstop': No such file or directory cp: cannot create regular file `/tmp/treedir.9508/image-template/usr/bin/losetup': No such file or directory cp: cannot create regular file `/tmp/treedir.9508/image-template/usr/bin/pump': No such file or directory cp: cannot create regular file `/tmp/treedir.9508/image-template/usr/bin/list-harddrives': No such file or directory cp: cannot create regular file `/tmp/treedir.9508/image-template/usr/bin/kudzu-probe': No such file or directory cp: cannot create regular file `/tmp/treedir.9508/image-template/usr/bin/loadkeys': No such file or directory cp: cannot create regular file `/tmp/treedir.9508/image-template/usr/bin/mknod': No such file or directory cp: cannot create regular file `/tmp/treedir.9508/image-template/usr/bin/syslogd': No such file or directory mv: cannot move `/tmp/treedir.9508/image-template/usr/sbin/anaconda' to `/tmp/treedir.9508/image-template/usr/bin/anaconda': No such file or directory ln: creating symbolic link `/tmp/treedir.9508/image-template/bin/sh' to `busybox': No such file or directory ERROR: directory missing: /tmp/treedir.9508/image-template/bin Aborting instroot creation... Creating repository metadata... When I look in /tmp/treedir.9508/image-template I notice that the bin directory indeed does not exist. I've googled and the closest thing I can find to my problem is this: http://osdir.com/ml/redhat.anaconda.devel/2002-07/msg00010.html in that he says the bin dirs are missing also but he says one is a file and I don't have anything named bin there at all. He also gets some different errors as a result of bin being missing it seems. My repository contains (among many others) the following packages which would seem to be relevant: anaconda-11.1.2.113-1.el5.centos.2.x86_64.rpm anaconda-runtime-11.1.2.113-1.el5.centos.2.x86_64.rpm busybox-1.2.0-4.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm busybox-anaconda-1.2.0-4.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm busybox-anaconda-1.2.0-4.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm And while I'm here, another question: What might cause this selinux error which gets generated (as seen above): libsemanage.semanage_install_sandbox: genhomedircon returned error code 1. If I point this same buildinstall command at a CentOS repo that contains all of the rpm's that CentOS normally ships with the build proceeds without error. No missing bin and no selinux error. So I must be missing an rpm. But I'm not sure which one and I need to get this paired down to a single CD so I can't just dump them all in. Thanks for any help you can provide! -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org pgpPjsvUUQlLN.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] buildinstall problems
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 01:33:07PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thusly: I am trying to make a stripped down CentOS 5.2 distro which will all fit on a single CD containing just the base and a few other packages I need. As usual, I had to post this to the list before I would be able to discover the problem myself only minutes later despite having worked the issue for hours previously. I stumbled upon this page: https://bugzilla.fedora.us/wiki/Anaconda/BuildinstallPackageRequirements Which documents what is required for buildinstall to work. I ran down the list copying in everything that I was missing which turned out to be fairly extensive: beecrypt-4.1.2-10.1.1.x86_64.rpm bogl-0.1.18-11.2.1.el5.1.x86_64.rpm bogl-bterm-0.1.18-11.2.1.el5.1.x86_64.rpm comps-extras-11.1-1.1.el5.centos.noarch.rpm elfutils-libelf-0.125-3.el5.x86_64.rpm esound-0.2.36-3.x86_64.rpm fonts-ISO8859-2-* gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-25.el5.x86_64.rpm gnome-python2-2.16.0-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm gnome-python2-canvas-2.16.0-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm krb5-libs-1.6.1-25.el5.x86_64.rpm libacl-2.2.39-3.el5.x86_64.rpm libart_lgpl-2.3.17-4.x86_64.rpm libattr-2.4.32-1.1.x86_64.rpm libgnome-2.16.0-6.el5.x86_64.rpm libgnomecanvas-2.14.0-4.1.x86_64.rpm libjpeg-6b-37.x86_64.rpm libstdc++-4.1.2-42.el5.x86_64.rpm libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.1.x86_64.rpm libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.1.x86_64.rpm lvm2-2.02.32-4.el5.x86_64.rpm ncurses-5.5-24.20060715.x86_64.rpm newt-0.52.2-10.el5.x86_64.rpm openssl-0.9.8b-10.el5.x86_64.rpm pam-0.99.6.2-3.27.el5.x86_64.rpm popt-1.10.2-48.el5.x86_64.rpm pygtk2-2.10.1-12.el5.x86_64.rpm python-2.4.3-21.el5.x86_64.rpm pyxf86config-0.3.31-2.fc6.x86_64.rpm redhat-artwork-5.1.0-26.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm rhpl-0.194.1-1.x86_64.rpm sed-4.1.5-5.fc6.x86_64.rpm slang-2.0.6-4.el5.x86_64.rpm tcp_wrappers-7.6-40.4.el5.x86_64.rpm urw-fonts-2.3-6.1.1.noarch.rpm vnc-server-4.1.2-9.el5.x86_64.rpm I'm not sure which ones exactly solved the specific problems I asked about before but the bin directory gets created and the anaconda/busybox stuff now works. The SE Linux related error also went away. So now I have to ask the next question before I can stumble across the answer myself: The above url lists packages required for both character (text) and graphical installs. I really only want to do a text install and would prefer to remove all of the X related stuff. But I don't see how to make buildinstall omit the graphical stuff. Anyone know? Thanks! -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org pgp4t9kfE5Tou.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
