[arch-general] Archiso, archiso_early, and udev issues with live cd

[Tom medhurst]

Fixed it. This problem seems to generally mean there is problem with the
kernel image.
I built my own with mkinitcpio and everything is hunky-dory now :)


On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Tom medhurst <tom.medhurst at gmail.com>wrote:

> /lib/udev/rules.d/ contains 60-cdrom_id.rules which looks for cdroms and
> makes them /dev/sr#. So I'm guessing it's not seeing the disk that the
> initrd is loaded from?
>
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> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Tom medhurst <tom.medhurst at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Thanks Heiko!
>>
>> That bug contains the same error message, but not sure it's for the same
>> reason. /dev/sr0 doesn't appear either for me.
>> For clarity, is /dev/disk/by-label/MY_LABEL supposed to point to my
>> installation CD, so isomounts can be loaded? Is that what this is trying to
>> do?
>>
>> I did get a ramfs prompt, but "udevadm trigger" does not seem to affect
>> /dev for me :(
>>
>> -tommed
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de>wrote:
>>
>>> Am Fri, 8 Apr 2011 11:42:25 +0100
>>> schrieb Tom medhurst <tom.medhurst at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> > I'm attempting to create my own Arch Live CD and I can't get the
>>> > archiso hook to complete successfully.
>>> >
>>> > In March 2010, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi removed the archiso_early hook
>>> > from archiso.git, which used to mount /dev/archiso (I'm not entirely
>>> > sure what this pointed to, but it's clearly required). In the commit
>>> > message he said it was removed because we could rely
>>> > on /dev/disk/by-label to get the device (created by udev).
>>> >
>>> > However I have built a custom live CD using mkarchiso and there is no
>>> > /dev/disk available to me, so this boot process fails.
>>> >
>>> > I was just wondering if anyone knew why this is missing, and what I
>>> > can do to get this booting?
>>> >
>>> > My mkinitcpio.conf file looks like this:
>>> >
>>> > *HOOKS="base udev memdisk archiso archiso_pxe_nbd archiso_loop_mnt
>>> > pata scsi sata usb fw pcmcia filesystems usbinput"*
>>>
>>> Is it this bug?
>>> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17231
>>>
>>> If you get the ramfs$ prompt you can as a workaround run `udevadm
>>> trigger` wait a few seconds and then enter `exit`.
>>>
>>> Heiko
>>>
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