Re: Debian live system, booting difficulties

[Daniel Ellison <daniel@syrinx.net>]

On 01/02/12 07:09 AM, christoffer krakou wrote:
> Hello people.
>
> I'm trying to build a live system using the Debian Live Builder, But i
> cannot get it to work. Just building the vanilla image with the default
> config produces an image wich never gets past the bootloader
>
> When i boot the hybrid-iso (i have tried using virtualbox and vmware
> player, with similar results), it gets to the syslinux boot menu. From
> here, i cannot boot the live kernel. If i exit the graphical menu and
> type "live", it simply says that the kernel is not found.
>
> i'm building the system using a Ubuntu 11.04 desktop. i've been trying
> for a few days now. What could be wrong? i feel i've tried everything

You need to put a hook named (for example) "kernel.binary" into 
config/hooks that goes something like this:

    #!/bin/sh
    mv binary/live/vmlinuz-* binary/live/vmlinuz || true
    mv binary/live/initrd.img-* binary/live/initrd.img || true

Make sure it's executable. This assumes you're using live build 3.x.

Daniel