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

[Neil Williams]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 10:56:07 -0300
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org> wrote:

> 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:
> > > $ 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
> > 
> > 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.  

OK, I'll update the docs, add a yarn test and a check on the options
that ext4 isn't going to work if wheezy is specified. (i.e. --roottype
becomes required if distribution is mapped to wheezy using
distro_info and the roottype must not be ext4.) IIRC syslinux in wheezy
just doesn't handle ext4 for the boot files. A separate /boot ext2
partition seems to be more work than it's worth. Once grub is working,
it may be possible to convert to ext4 [0] but that too seems like a lot
of work/risk.

[0]
https://www.debian-administration.org/article/643/Migrating_a_live_system_from_ext3_to_ext4_filesystem

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Neil Williams
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