[Vmdebootstrap-devel] Bug#822452: Bug#822452: vmdebootstrap: can't produce a working wheezy image

[Antonio Terceiro]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 07:27:41PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 13:49:35 -0300
> Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > Package: vmdebootstrap
> > Version: 1.5-1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > $ sudo http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:3142 vmdebootstrap --enable-dhcp
> > --image test-grub.img --serial-console --distribution wheezy
> > --verbose --log test-grub.log && echo booting image && kvm -snapshot
> > -nographic test-grub.img Creating disk image Creating partitions
> > Installing MBR Creating filesystem ext4
> 
> Can you test with --roottype ext2 ? ext3 works for me too.

yes, it works with --roottype ext3

> The extlinux.conf file is correctly generated, it just looks like the
> filesystem is not mounted.
> 
> > SYSLINUX 6.03 20151108 Copyright (C) 1994-2014 H. Peter Anvin et al
> > Loading boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64... failed: No such file or
> > directory boot: 
> > Loading boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64... failed: No such file or
> > directory boot: 
> > Loading boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64... failed: No such file or
> > directory boot: 
> > [ ^^^^ repeats forever ^^^^ ]
> 
> All of the wheezy test images I've used were using ext2 and it may be
> that a change in the default has resulted in syslinux not coping in
> wheezy.
> 
> I can update the docs and the default for wheezy.
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