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Hi Israel,
Tried booting to Live session in VB several times but just got to the tty1 login screen each time; what's the Live username and password btw?
              
Cheers,JackT.




> To: nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx; torios-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> From: israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 17:28:18 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Torios-dev] OBI in xenial
> 
> On 08/20/2016 12:33 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> > [bottom posting]
> >
> > Den 2016-08-19 kl. 23:17, skrev Israel:
> >> On 08/19/2016 10:45 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> >>> Thanks for the update, Israel :-)
> >>>
> >>> Best regards
> >>> Nio
> >>>
> >>> Den 2016-08-19 kl. 17:41, skrev Israel:
> >>>> Hey Nio,
> >>>>
> >>>> I spent some time testing ISOmaker with Ubuntu Xenial just to see how
> >>>> well it would work out of the box.
> >>>>
> >>>> And honestly the ISOmaker scripts worked well, and only require a 
> >>>> bit of
> >>>> adjustment, which were all good future-proofing adjustments anyhow,
> >>>> which will allow easy implementation of future Ubuntu/Debian versions.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> The liveCD booted and worked well.... however OBI had a few issues.
> >>>>
> >>>> In *functions*
> >>>>
> >>>> if [[ "$ltest0" == "/cow" ]] || [[ "$ltest0" == "aufs" ]] || [[
> >>>> "$ltest0" == "rootfs" ]]
> >>>> then
> >>>>
> >>>> needed to include overlay (or at least I think this will work)
> >>>>
> >>>> if [[ "$ltest0" == "/cow" ]] || [[ "$ltest0" == "aufs" ]] || [[
> >>>> "$ltest0" == "rootfs" ]] *|| [[ "$ltest0" == "overlay" ]]*
> >>>> then
> >>>>
> >>>> Secondly I modified the select_device()
> >>>> to use a 'common' function
> >>>> list_device_dialog()
> >>>> which can also be used by grub-installer
> >>>>
> >>>> This may introduce a bug... so I will test it, but if it works as it
> >>>> should it will simplify future modifications by using the same code to
> >>>> list devices (similar to the list_device) script
> >>>>
> >>>> I will be testing it in a new xenial iso I am working on.
> >>>> reverting the changes will be trivial (since we use bzr for version
> >>>> control)
> >>>> so if things don't work in xenial or mess up jessie it will be easy to
> >>>> revert.
> >>>>
> >>>> I think this test is important as the next Debian version may well use
> >>>> the new format for the squashfs.
> >>>> It may be that I need to rework things further and this will need 
> >>>> to be
> >>>> put off but I want to let you know:
> >>>> a) I am still working on things
> >>>>
> >>>> I will attempt to build a xenial and a jessie ISO and test both of 
> >>>> them
> >>>> to see if the change breaks (or fixes) either of them.
> >>>>
> >>>> I am much better versed in Bash these days, so making a change like 
> >>>> this
> >>>> should be trivial, but there is a possibility that I do not fully
> >>>> understand Nio's code and overlooked something important.
> >>>>
> >>>> The other important change is in *user-config*
> >>>> I changed
> >>>> DISTRO=$(chroot "${CHROOT}" bash -c "uname -v")
> >>>> To:
> >>>> DISTRO=$(chroot "${CHROOT}" bash -c "uname *-a*")
> >>>>
> >>>> and added
> >>>> [[ "${DISTRO/Ubuntu}" != "${DISTRO}" ]] && [[ "${DISTRO/ 4.?.?}" !=
> >>>> "${DISTRO}" ]] && LOGecho "This release of Ubuntu kernel does not
> >>>> support non PAE $DISTRO" && return
> >>>> in the cpu() function after it checks the 64bit portion, as xenial has
> >>>> no non-pae kernel so it is already a PAE kernel
> >>>>
> >>>> I am building this in
> >>>>
> >>>> ppa:israeldahl/obi-unstable
> >>>>
> >>>> So there should be no issues with our current progress in jessie
> >>>>
> >>>> -- 
> >>>> Regards
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hi Nio,
> >>
> >> I tested it pretty well, and found the major bugs, and issues.
> >>
> >> i will rebuild in the unstable ppa and make an ISO for testing (if you
> >> like)
> >>
> >> The major issue was the needed harware detector for Debian (it checks
> >> for missing firmware and installs it in Debian... non free proprietary
> >> stuff like wifi dongles etc...)
> >>
> >>
> >> This is a good fix because we may want to base on Ubuntu again at some
> >> point, and both versions will be about the same, as I use Ubuntu to
> >> build things (and run ToriOS in xenial) so I know the tools work.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Yes Israel,
> >
> > It is a good idea to make an ISO for testing in Xenial.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Nio
> Here is the link for this test ISO.
> http://phillw.net/isos/torios/ToriOS-2016-08-19-beta-xenial.iso
> 
> Let me know how it goes.  I tested it a few times, and the install (at 
> basic level) works.
> 
> Network in the Live session did NOT work.
> 
> Everything else worked as expected in the installed system
> 
> -- 
> Regards
> 
> 
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