[SOLVED] Four years of success with remastering but now no joy

[bitzbox]

I've lost count of the number of successfull remasters I've created over the last four years, it must be scores of 'em. However, I've "been away" from PCLOS for the last six months so I decided to do a fresh install of 2010.12 (Full KDE) on a new partition. I then did a full update (huge!), installed all my needed apps and configured everything up, rebooted and then ran mylivecd as root. Every remaster I've created in the past has taken approx 17 minutes but this time, it took twice as long but everything appeared to go OK and I ended up with a 1GB ISO which I then burnt to a DVD. Booted the DVD and did a "media check" which resulted in a PASS. I then rebooted the DVD with the intention of running the LiveDVD but after getting past the grub boot menu, everything stopped with the "Black Bull" on my screen. Actually it wasn't black, it was dark grey. I waited and waited but nothing happened so no option but to press the reset button. I've repeated this with a fresh install of MiniMe and I've tried different burning software but I can't get past the "Black Bull". I find it odd that I had no problems whatsoever with remastering for something like four years and now I'm having problems. Ideas anyone please?

Regards .....

[AS]

Hello bitzbox,

there has been some update recently related to mylivecd:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,89314.msg747855.html#msg747855

a short summary:
using kernel 2.6.33.x (which is the default kernel for KDE 2010.12) you must manually add the switch --lzma at mylivecd command line.
using kernel 2.6.37.x, or 2.6.38.x, you can use --gzip or --xz (xz is now the default compression)

xz,is now the default compression and allow for better compression at price of lower speed.
gzip is the faster option, at price of larger iso
lzma is at an intermediate stage between xz and gzip

AS

[bitzbox]

I'm using the default 2.6.33.7-pclos6.bfs kernel, so I've just done another remaster with the --lzma switch this time. I'm pleased to say that it's solved the problem and I now have a fully functional remaster. In fact, I'm using it to type this reply. Thank you very much indeed for your help and for pointing me in the right direction 

Regards .....