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Re: Testing in VB: RE: OBI in xenial

 

Hi Jack,

Did you try

ctrl + alt + F1

followed by

ctrl + alt + F7

Sometimes it gets graphics working for xenial in virtualbox.

Best regards
Nio

Den 2016-08-21 kl. 12:22, skrev Cinque Port Computers:
Hi israel,

Live session in VB: Worked out username was 'root' and password 'torios'
and tried to execute 'startx' but that failed 'no screens found'.

Cheers,
JackT.


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From: jackdtrice@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 10:49:28 +0100
CC: torios-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Torios-dev] Testing in VB: RE: OBI in xenial

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

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