[SOLVED] mylivecd stuck on udev

[Klinux]

I installed a fresh copy of PClinuxOS 2010 XFCE installation whent fine.
I created an ISO using the mylivecd script.
Creation went fine.
I burned it at the lowest speed, fine.
When booting the boot process stucks on udev.

I have tried this different time with different downloads, different installation, inside VirtualBox, on my Dell Vostro 1720, on my AMD Sempron 3000+, still the same.

I never had problems in previous versions.
As somebody suggested on the forum, I also think the mylivecd script is not working fine, sometihng is wrong in the 2010 release.

[Texstar]

Check your installed filesystem for errors. Then reboot and turn off uneeded services at boot such as atd crond syslog kheader mysqld xinetd and numlock. Then unmount ALL extra file systems. Then make sure you have plenty of free space and a large swap partition. Then make sure you aren't trying to compress more tha 8-10 gig into a 4 gig dvd. Finally run mylivecd --lzma --md5sum name-of-iso. Test your iso in virtualbox to make sure everything boots.

Some community members who have published their remasters.

Neal
Pinoc
Melody
Linuxera
Sefy
Sproggy
Joble
slick50
Saimer
Tommylee567

[fishfillet]

Same here, I think I have remastered more than 15 times and only 2 didn't work but was fixed by an update.

The question is, as it is not mentioned in your thread... have your updated your installation before doing a remaster?

[John Bee]

Hi;

 I have found that I had to include the --lzma. If I tried to create a remaster without it, I get the same stopping at the udev line.

This is my command line to create my remaster. This makes a remaster that boots fine.

mylivecd --md5sum --ufs unionfs --lzma --bootloader iso /home/data/PCLos.iso

[Klinux]

Hi Tex, thanks for the answer.
In my previous attempts I have not updated my system (I though, brand new releas everything should be up

to date ;-) )
This is what I have done:

VirtualBox:
HDD: 10 GB
RAM: 512 MB
Installed PClinuxOS 2010 XFCE
Swap partition 1 GB
The rest ext3 mount point is / (can another be chosen???)

After installation

Synaptic packet manager > Reload > Mark All upgrades

After a while
Done
Changed wallpaper
Installed opera-unite

umount -a
mylivecd --lzma --md5sum live.iso

It says draklive-install is missing
Installed draklive-install

umount -a
mylivecd --lzma --md5sum live.iso

Image is created
Burned image through VirtualBox to a brand new CD-R (again 50 euro cents)
Booted on VirtualBox, it now seems to boot fine (yeah ?)
Better I will try on real hardware before saying yeah.
One different thing now is that the logs in the console are not aligned anymore, but that's another story.
What is the lzma option for???
I will try this evening on real hardware and let you know

Thanks

[Klinux]

Image booted fine on my Laptop, I will now install everything, and remaster it, if it works again, then I will mark this as solved. Thanks guys

[Neal ManBear]

The --lzma option is to compress the ISO; i.e. to use lzma compression to make a 2.7GB install fit on a 700MB CD.

[fishfillet]

Check your installed filesystem for errors. Then reboot and turn off uneeded services at boot such as atd crond syslog kheader mysqld xinetd and numlock. Then unmount ALL extra file systems. Then make sure you have plenty of free space and a large swap partition. Then make sure you aren't trying to compress more tha 8-10 gig into a 4 gig dvd. Finally run mylivecd --lzma --md5sum name-of-iso. Test your iso in virtualbox to make sure everything boots.

Thanks for the tip on turning off unneeded services.  Although I had successful remasters in the past, I noticed that when shutting down (during livecd and full install) it showed FAILED error on atd, and on another service.

I tried turning off the mentioned services above before doing a remaster and that small problem is gone.

Happy to learn something new again from you Tex.  Thank you!