First attempt at remaster failing. [SOLVED]

[wedgetail]

BPsoftware
Here speaks the voice of experience    Good suggestion, when things fail step back to basics as far as you know.

mr-roboto
I suggested your system may be completely different, this turned out to be right as I do not see any evidence that 'Zoro The Bore' tested in a VM box.

You seem to know more than your post suggested, go back to basics and do test as he did, then show us the evidence as I have indicated. 

[mr-roboto]

I honestly have to say in the past I was doing many installations in VirtualBox and customizing and creating the image from there.
However since some time now I found that in a Virtual Machine I was always getting similar errors to yours.
Somebody once said here in the forum that doing remasters in a VM can fail. Obviously beeingstubbborn I was not trusting him, but please try all you did outside of VMware.

I'm not being stubborn, but I've had a lot of success over the years doing Linux development work in a VMWare VM.  At this very moment, I have two PCLOS VMs.  The 1st, contains the system image I've referred to in this thread.  Yesterday, I finally made a bootable remaster based on this image, which is definitely progress, but devices aren't working properly booting on a real PC.  I set my initial image (called Experimental) aside to create another VM, called Mini, based on the LXDE-Mini ISO.  I took a modestly different approach to remastering my image this time.  While working on the Mini image, I think I may have figured out what's wrong with Experimental.

Anyway, I have several other active projects besides modifying PCLOS, so multiple real PCs aren't an option for many reasons.  Ultimately, one must test on a real PC....Jet

[pags]

You need 2.6.38 kernel or for older kernel use --lzma option as previously discussed in this area.

Tex:

I completely don't understand the above.  [Independently] I carried out the same steps as described by Zore, except I started w/ a base of LXDE-2010.12.  Granted, I know you wrote the mylivecd script, but I've been led to believe lzma is enabled by default.  Moreover, what does the kernel version or lzma have to do w/ system image not being found at boot time ?

Ultimately, the next remaster will have the latest kernel.  The system is being updated as we go.  There is a known bug with kernel versions and compressions types for the LiveCD (discussed elsewhere in the forum).  The current mylivecd script, being intended for the later kernels, has a default compression suitable for them.  If your running it on an older kernel (as already mentioned), then you need to define the compression type.  If you want the script's default compression, you need the newer kernel(s).

Hope this helps...

[Zore The Bore]

Just to clear things up, I'm a Linux user, and I don't run any VM Ware, or Virtual Box, or Wine.

I don't need any of that stuff, because Linux does everything I need it to do and more.

[wedgetail]

Zore The Bore
Nice clear up, I have been worried that I might have missed something when scanning the thread.  My impression was that you did not use "any of that sort"   

[Zore The Bore]

Hi wedgetail  

I've been a 100% Linux user for almost four years now.  

Who needs a Virtual Box when the 'real' box is soooo much better?  

PCLinuxOS just goes and goes and goes and ....

[pags]

Hi wedgetail  

I've been a 100% Linux user for almost four years now.  

Who needs a Virtual Box when the 'real' box is soooo much better?  

PCLinuxOS just goes and goes and goes and ....

Even if you use only Linux, a tool like VirtualBox can be useful (but definitely not required  ) to install additional PCLOS setups to test software, updates, etc...