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Re: Can't boot jessie images with non-jessie kernel



Thank you guys. With

live-boot-initramfs-tools 1:20160511~bpo8+1,
live-boot 1:20160511~bpo8+1 and
live-boot-doc 1:20160511~bpo8+1

it is going fine.


Csordás Csaba


On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 11:37 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> wrote:
> Csaba,
>
> some time ago I tried the same thing you did, with the same result.
>
> The problem is that Debian Live Jessie (live-boot 4.x) uses aufs, which was
> removed from later kernels in jessie-backports, which now instead support
> overlayfs.
>
> There was a discussion earlier this year about using live-boot 5.x to build
> Jessie images, but I have not tried to do so:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2016/04/msg00005.html
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2016/04/msg00007.html
>
> Kind regards,
> Ben.
>
>
> On 15/07/16 11:04, Csordás Csaba wrote:
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I'm trying to build Debian Live Jessie (XFCE + nonfree) with the
>> kernel from jessie-backports. Or some other kernel from experimental,
>> which are newer than 3.16. The build succeeds, but the resulting
>> hybrid iso image does not boot. I'm getting this far with it:
>>
>> kvm -boot menu=on -net nic -net tap -m 1G -vga vmware -cdrom
>> /debian-live/live-images/images/xfce-desktop/live-image-amd64.hybrid.iso
>>
>> I'm attaching a screenshot, sorry for that - after I sort things out I
>> will do a clean build once more again with build.log and other things
>> uploaded somewhere if needed. I was just trying it to much and I still
>> not get it.
>>
>> Csordás Csaba
>>
>
> --
> Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
> Director
> Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/>
> New Zealand


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