Bug#715186: support loop-mounted iso on same partition as persistence

2016-05-13 Thread David Hare
I have been doing this since Debian Squeeze with a patched 9990-misc-helpers in my live initrd. I can use (optionally) a single-partition live usb with RW access and a persistence file. It is activated only if "mountmode=rw,noatime" is on cmdline. I never had any problem with this (although some u

Bug#801631: Os-prober identifies a Devuan installation as 'unknown Linux distribution'

2015-10-13 Thread David Hare
On 12/10/15 21:50, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi, David Hare (2015-10-12): Package: os-prober Version: 1.65 Severity: normal Tags: patch When invoking 'update-grub' an installation of Devuan on another partition is identified by os-prober as 'unknown Linux distribution'.

Bug#801631: Os-prober identifies a Devuan installation as 'unknown Linux distribution'

2015-10-12 Thread David Hare
detection of other OS's (including some Debian derivatives). Please resolve this for future versions. A simple 3-line patch to /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90linux-distro (enclosed) has been observed to work (by myself only so far). David Hare 127a128,130 > elif [ -e "$dir/etc/

Bug#744925: udevil cannot mount ext2 "image" files RW

2014-04-16 Thread David Hare
Package: udevil Version: 0.4.3-1~bpo70+1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I need to mount ext2 "image" files RW as user. Example (If "-t ext2" is not given it does not mount at all): udevil mount -t ext2 '/media/service/persistence' Log entry: $ udevil mount -t ext2 /media/service/sid/per

Bug#738146: live-boot: Swap partition does not autoconfigure

2014-02-08 Thread David Hare
On 08/02/14 16:30, Daniel Baumann wrote: close 738146 4.0~alpha19-1 thanks On 02/08/2014 04:26 AM, David Hare wrote: Looking at /lib/live/boot/3020-swapon it should anyway be "swap" mot "swapon" the manpage has been updated in above version. This behaviour is also ob

Bug#738146: live-boot: Swap partition does not autoconfigure

2014-02-07 Thread David Hare
Package: live-boot Version: 4.0~a7-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Testing this now with debian-live-7.0.0-i386-xfce-desktop.iso (transferred to a usb pen with syslinux). The parameter "swapon" as described in "man live-boot" does nothing at all. Looking at /lib/live/boot/3020-swapon it shou

Bug#701614: live-boot: persistence not working with luks encrypted image

2013-03-03 Thread David Hare
On 25/02/13 10:08, Peter Schaefer wrote: persistence not working with luks encrypted image file patch from bugreport #700902 is applied test configuration Partition: Labeled: DEBIAN-HOME formated as: ext2 contained image file named persistence size: 210MByte

Bug#700984: Live image fails to boot (hangs) when using "debug" with LUKS persistence

2013-02-25 Thread David Hare
On 25/02/13 10:22, Peter Schaefer wrote: wait for at least 10 sec, type the password for luks and the the boot continued the full debug log is then present debug seems to block the output of luksopen best regards peter Schaefer Confirmed here, behaves just like that with my custom wheezy. T

Bug#700984: Live image fails to boot (hangs) when using "debug" with LUKS persistence

2013-02-21 Thread David Hare
On 21/02/13 12:54, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 02/21/2013 01:49 PM, David Hare wrote: With luks persistence and "debug" used together it hangs in exactly the same way as before! ok, thanks.. can't promise to get to it before next week, but i'll try. I did run the iso i

Bug#700984: Live image fails to boot (hangs) when using "debug" with LUKS persistence

2013-02-21 Thread David Hare
On 20/02/13 06:11, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 02/20/2013 04:37 AM, David Hare wrote: custom Wheezy (otherwise working normally) with all live-* packages from sid please make sure you have matching versions of live-* in the image, either that being *both* live-config/live-boot 3.x, or *both* 4.x

Bug#700984: Live image fails to boot (hangs) when using "debug" with LUKS persistence

2013-02-19 Thread David Hare
manually rebuilt initrd with /lib/live/ replaced with that from 4.0~a7-1, that should be enough without rebuilding the actual image. It behaves the same on two different machines (but works without "debug") Can't save the log so it's difficult to give much more info. Da

Bug#700902: boot: luks persistence fails because load_keymap outputs a message about "Loading"

2013-02-18 Thread David Hare
On 19/02/13 00:47, stack wrote: Package: live-boot Version: 3.0.1-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello, this bug is about live-boot and luks persistence, I've tried to build minimal live builds with suggestions from people on the channel and they worked fine (sid builds), but whenever I permitte