livecd February 2021

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[Help Wanted] Fedora 34 Kickstart: Novirt_install failed.
by Kai Lyons 16 Feb '21

16 Feb '21

I am trying to form a spin of Fedora specifically to have a controlled and customized Linux environment for my OEM startup. I have been working on trying to get Fedora Kickstarts working as a test and experimentation with the building process. Here are the exact error messages I am having an issue with. (Running in Mock running Fedora-34-x86_64 on a fresh Fedora 33 install in virtual box) ``` 2021-02-15 16:27:54,877: Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused 2021-02-15 16:28:55,093: Running anaconda failed: process '['unshare', '--pid', '--kill-child', '--mount', '--propagation', 'unchanged', 'anaconda', '--kickstart', '/root/fedora-kickstarts/flat-fedora-live-cinnamon.ks', '--cmdline', '--dirinstall', '--remotelog', '127.0.0.1:48853']' was killed by signal 9 2021-02-15 16:28:55,094: Shutting down log processing 2021-02-15 16:28:56,155: Install failed: novirt_install failed 2021-02-15 16:28:56,157: Removing bad disk image 2021-02-15 16:28:56,405: ERROR: Image creation failed: novirt_install failed 2021-02-15 16:28:56,406: Image creation failed: novirt_install failed ``` Any resources or fixes that anyone can share? Thank you in advance.

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Beeping while booting the image
by Vojtěch Polášek 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

Hello, can I somehow add beep sound which would be played when the boot menu appears? I know there is an option in Grub for that. Is the fina ISO actually using Grub? And if yes, where to put the option please? Thank you, Vojta

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livecd-iso-to-disk & editliveos: Expand partitioning and filesystem support
by Frederick Grose 08 Feb '21

08 Feb '21

See https://github.com/livecd-tools/livecd-tools/pull/176. A cumulative update, best reviewed by testing. Enable formatting of a separate EFI System Partition and Apple HFS+ boot partition based on the files efiboot.img and macboot.img in the /images directory of the source. This means EFI booting is possible with overlay sizes as large as the free space on the primary partition. Support F2FS type formatting for the device root, home, or overlay filesystems. Provide boot support for F2FS-formatted discs with an EFI Boot Stub loader from dracut, as GRUB support for F2FS is faulty at this time. Allow conversion of the root filesystem type between ext[234], btrfs, xfs, & F2FS and their available block sizes with editliveos. Allow a Device-mapper target to be the target device for installation. This would enable concurrent multi device installation through a preconfigured Device-mapper mirror target. Also, - introduce the --noesp option to --format to avoid the extra partitions; - on UEFI booted hosts, offer to create a UEFI boot entry for F2FS-based installations; - do not require SYSLINUX-EXTLINUX on the installation host; - take greater advantage of BASH case statements for code structure; - use fallocate on filesystem creation to reserve storage space for embedded filesystems; - add a trap ERR line for error reporting in livecd-iso-to-disk; - provide better support for isoscan/filename boots from .iso files; - delete the uncompressed image file just after compression to make more space available, if preservation of temporary files is not selected; - use bind mounts for /run, /sys, & /dev in liveimage-mount; - update documentation. ref: ... as GRUB support for F2FS is faulty at this time. I found that the following command run against a livecd-iso-to-disk installed LiveUSB, sudo grub2-install -v --boot-directory=/run/media/ \liveuser/ESP/EFI/BOOT --compress=xz --modules="part_gpt part_msdos f2fs" --efi-directory=/run/media/ \liveuser/ESP/EFI --no-bootsector --removable -s --target=x86_64-efi --recheck /run/media/liveuser/ESP/ produces a BOOTX64.EFI that recognizes the F2FS filesystem on listing (hd0,gpt1) but scrolls blank lines continuously when listing (hd0,gpt1)/ I suspect that f2fs.mod is not fully compatible with f2fs ver 1.14. Confirmation and followup on this would be appreciated. I haven't been able to locate the source code that specifies the modules included in the EFI boot loaders that are provided with the Fedora Live .isos. A pointer to that would be appreciated too.

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