roar-ng and Subito GNU/Linux 0.9.5 Beta

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#161 Post by nooby »

I don't have Git or Roar so I can not make the iso.

Are there any chance you can upload
vmlinuz file and the initrd.gz file to smokey
or somebody else server?
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#162 Post by Iguleder »

I'll upload it to my web server, no problem. Testing a new image I built today - if it works well, I'll upload this one.

EDIT: grrrr. Live boot works, persistent USB boot doesn't. I'm currently working on a fix.

EDIT 2: problem solved! I'm building a final image which will be available through my repository.
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#163 Post by nooby »

I downloaded the file and tried to boot it
but it gave two different error messages.
mount: mounting /dev//sda1 on mnt/root failed
Failed to mount the root partition.

That was when I had the root=sda1 or root=/sda1
or root=/mnt/sda1 or root=/dev/sda1

I used this boot code and many others

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title shahor  
  kernel (hd0,0)/shahorboot/vmlinuz sleep=5
  initrd (hd0,0)/shahorboot/initrd.gz 
 


title shahor  
rootnoverify (hd0,0) 
  kernel /shahorboot/vmlinuz sleep=5
  initrd /shahorboot/initrd.gz 
I tested as many variants that I could imagine.

Then I tested without the root=
and got this error message.

Failed to locate and mount the root partition.


I made an usb manually as one do with Puppy
it has grub4dos on it and is fat32 most likely.
I made a boot directory with the right files.

It also say it fail to find the root partition. So I am not intelligent
enough to boot it. Doing DD is too dangerous :)



on the HD
I have Win Vista the boot is a BCD thing from

# NeoSmart NeoGrub Bootloader Configuration File#
# This is the NeoGrub configuration file, and should be located at C:\NST\menu.lst
# Please see the EasyBCD Documentation for information on how to create/modify entries:
# http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD
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#164 Post by Iguleder »

It fails to mount the partition for some reason - I guess it's because you use FAT32.

Use an ext2/3/4 partition.

By the way - the "root" boot code receives just the partition name, e.g "root=sda1".
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#165 Post by RJARRRPCGP »

Iguleder wrote:Full instructions are located here.

However, in order to make a 32-bit, you'll have to do one extra step: run 4buildpackage for each package mentioned here. Before you do this, you'll have to change the architecture (under conf/distrorc) to "i486" and remove all Subito packages from the package list. Once all packages are built, you can rebuild the whole thing with those packages included.
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#166 Post by RJARRRPCGP »

8-bit wrote: But that, I kind of expected as I was booting it on a dual-core amd processor PC. But.... That PC will NOT run 64bit applications as it was built with a 32bit buss.
All dual core AMDs support 64-bit. I'm not aware of AMD possibly disabling 64-bit except for some maybe some Semprons.

That's not correct unless you have a socket 462, which was never 64-bit.

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#167 Post by Iguleder »

RJARRRPCGP wrote:
Iguleder wrote:Full instructions are located here.

However, in order to make a 32-bit, you'll have to do one extra step: run 4buildpackage for each package mentioned here. Before you do this, you'll have to change the architecture (under conf/distrorc) to "i486" and remove all Subito packages from the package list. Once all packages are built, you can rebuild the whole thing with those packages included.
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#168 Post by RJARRRPCGP »

Does Slacko 5.4 have most of the required dependencies already?

I know it don't have git and aria2. But PPM will tell me that git is installed already! :?

And Python appears to not be installed, despite PPM claims there's Python installed already. :?

I had it up to my knees with PPM! :x

Now, does Slacko 5.4 have all of the other dependencies already?

(other than advancecomp and optipng)

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#169 Post by Iguleder »

You don't need any of these ... :roll:

I don't know what the heck you're trying to do, but Puppy has everything you need in order to run roar-ng II. If you don't have Git you can always download a tarball via GitHub.
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#170 Post by RJARRRPCGP »

Iguleder wrote:You don't need any of these ... :roll:

I don't know what the heck you're trying to do, but Puppy has everything you need in order to run roar-ng II. If you don't have Git you can always download a tarball via GitHub.
Thank you. Was just dealing with PPM issues and just reinstalled Slacko 5.4 last night.

It looks like git gets installed when I tell PPM to install git, despite there's text telling me it's installed already. :?

It also looks like Slacko comes with a failed Python install by default. :?

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#171 Post by RJARRRPCGP »

Iguleder wrote:You don't need any of these ... :roll:

I don't know what the heck you're trying to do, but Puppy has everything you need in order to run roar-ng II. If you don't have Git you can always download a tarball via GitHub.
Looks like git went fine.

I was able to cd to the roar-ng-ii directory.

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#172 Post by efgee »

Hi, just found "roar-ng ii" and thought I try it out.
Got the github package and started it according to the readme file.
Went the easy route just to see if it even would work on my machine and started the shahor build.

The first 3 steps went OK except an error message said that one file could not be created because it already exists...
Didn't sound too bad, so I proceeded.

Had to use sudo for the 4th step to get started (permission was needed):
"sudo ./roar-ng build isolinux shahor.iso"

But it stops with an error:
/home/efgee/roar-ng-ii/skeleton/initramfs
Registering the "initramfs" package
./common: line 806: /home/efgee/roar-ng-ii/sandbox/initramfs/var/hpm/initramfs: No such file or directory
./roar-ng: line 343: cpio: command not found
which: no advdef in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl)
/home/efgee/roar-ng-ii/media/isolinux: line 47: mkisofs: command not found
Error: failed to create the bootable media image.
Is there more documentation that I should read?

The host distro was Manjaro (Arch for lazy ones like me...)

In any case, I think your tool is pretty cool, even if I'm too dumb to use it :wink:

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