[Solved] KDE Remaster failure - advice?

[OldGuy]

I cleaned up my /home dir by moving myfiles to a usb.  So /home is empty except for the standard folders (which too are empty).

Ran both bleachbit programs.  

Rebooted and ran mylivecd from a root shell under my user profile.

It created an iso that was 1,104,111,616 in size.

Burned it to an DVD, since it was just a little over the size of a CD.

My system is update, well two days ago, as that the time I started to build everything.

In trying to boot from the LiveCD to run as LiveCD, not install or safe mode.

I get the Grey PCLinuxOS background with the blue progress bar.

Now the blue bar fills up, and the whole thing just sits there.  After 10 minutes I power down as the LiveCD isn't running at all.

My question would be has others had this problem?  

I'm burning my setup for another person's use and hate not being able to test it first.
And would hate to drop it off to my friends without knowing it would load/work on his system.

I also notice that this mylivecd does create a check media selection on the first menu of the cd.  
Just noticed that and I kinda miss it.

I haven't done a livecd for about a month, and I can only think, something went wrong that didn't show up in it's creation.  All my others have worked fine.

Any suggestions?  And, thank you for taking the time to read and/or comment on this post.


[UPDATE]

After posting this I went to the repositories and saw a new mylivecd, don't know what changed.  But if no one has ideas will probably run a new one tonight, it takes almost 7 hours to complete.  So I'm not in a really big rush.

[UPDATE #2]
Using the boot without splash (gee how could I have missed that) It reported it couldn't mount loop filesystem and suggested it was a bad burn.  darn well back to the burning software.  Here we come k3b.  Even tho k3b burned and verified without an error. 

[pags]

What kernel are you running?

What is your exact command line for mylivecd?

[OldGuy]

What kernel are you running?

What is your exact command line for mylivecd?

I was using the standard "mylivecd", after figuring out I could boot without the spash I found out my command needed a few extra, as I had an old kernel.  So I've just finished making one with "mylivecd --lzma new.iso".  That seemed to work fine.

Funny then I read the note TexStar had on old kernel's and knew that's where I failed.  And, found a note about updating to a new kernel.  So I'm back to building the kernel, and running mylivecd again (giggle).  Thank goodness I'm retired and don't mind doing a 7 hr run, it's a learning experience.  And in many ways great fun.

Thanks for your interest!

[djohnston]

7 hours to run mylivecd to completion? Hmmm. Are you running a Pentium3? Seriously, I have decent specs. AMD Athlon64 dual core running at 2.6 gHz with 4GB of RAM. While running mylivecd, I'm also running two instances of folding@home and running Firefox browsing the web. And it still only takes about an hour and a half to complete the mylivecd run with default xz compression (best compression method, but the most time-consuming creating the iso image).

What's the size of your iso? Mine comes in at 1.5GB.

[OldGuy]

7 hours to run mylivecd to completion? Hmmm. Are you running a Pentium3? Seriously, I have decent specs. AMD Athlon64 dual core running at 2.6 gHz with 4GB of RAM. While running mylivecd, I'm also running two instances of folding@home and running Firefox browsing the web. And it still only takes about an hour and a half to complete the mylivecd run with default xz compression (best compression method, but the most time-consuming creating the iso image).

What's the size of your iso? Mine comes in at 1.5GB.

I have an old white-box built by a buddy, the iso I'm building today is 2.348 mb, my normal is about 1.7.

I just updated my kernel and am trying the --gzip, that was about 1/2 the time to build, but waiting for a dvd burn to test it.  I don't mind the time, as I usually run it overnight as I enjoy a rest from the day.  Kinda excited to try a new option --gzip.  Will know in a bit of time if it works out.  I did successfully do a --lzma and built a usb stick yesterday, but was using the old kernel and wanted to redo the work under 2.6.38.8.

The job is being done from a friend who travels, and I would like everything to be just right.

Thanks for your input.