[PVE-User] sbin/unconfigured.sh

[Steve]

See the blog post (end of page)
http://rmprepusb.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/add-proxmox-isos-to-easy2boot.html

On 19 May 2017 at 12:51, Steve <steve at easy2boot.com> wrote:

> I just found  a way to get it to work by modifying the grub menu and add
> lvm2root=/dev/sdX4
>
> where sdX4 is a partition on the USB drive which points directly to the
> ISO file.
> So I am booting from the ISO (mapped to the BIOS device (0xff) in
> grub4dos) which boots to the grub2 menu and then I add the lvm2root
> parameter.
>
> The strange thing is that if I boot from a FAT32 flat-file system and have
> the ISO mapped to a partition in exactly the same way, the init script
> fails.
>
>
>
> On 19 May 2017 at 12:46, Fabian Grünbichler <f.gruenbichler at proxmox.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 10:27:20AM +0100, Steve wrote:
>> > If I type xinit it says /bin/sh: xinit: not found
>> >
>> > I am the author of easy2boot which is a USB multiboot tool to allow
>> people
>> > to boot from 100's of different ISOs (or images) all from one USB stick.
>> > I have been asked by a user to get proxmox 4 working.
>> > 3.2 works because I can run the unconfigured.sh from the command line
>> >
>> > http://rmprepusb.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/add-proxmox-isos-to-
>> easy2boot.html
>> > http://www.easy2boot.com
>> >
>> > I tried setting proxdebug and  root=/dev/sdb1  or lvm2root=/dev/sdb1 to
>> get
>> > it to mount the FAT32 partition to /mnt. I do not need to manually use
>> any
>> > mount commands, it just automatically runs init but this causes an early
>> > error message of
>> > mount: mounting /dev/sdb1 on /mnt failed: Invalid argument
>> > but if I use the mount command I can see that /mnt is present as a vfat
>> > /dev/sdb1
>> > If I press CTRL+D to continue, it fails in the exact same place with
>> > Installation aborted - unable to continue.
>> > Note that this is not using my script at all, just the original init
>> script
>> > - I have not broken into the boot process because it picks up the
>> lvm2root
>> > parameter.
>> >
>> > I am so *near*, yet I just cannot get the unconfigured.sh script to run
>> in
>> > this way...
>> >
>> > thanks for your help.
>> > Steve
>>
>> I just did a quick test run using Grub:
>>
>> loopback test PATHTOISO
>> linux (test)/boot/linux26 proxdebug ramdisk_size=16777216 rw
>> initrd (test)/boot/initrd.img
>> boot
>>
>> drops me into the initrd debug shell
>>
>> if I do the following (major/minor depend on your disk configuration,
>>   check /sys/class/block/XXX/dev where XXX is your usb partition where
>>   the iso is)
>>
>> mknod /tmp/usbdev b MAJOR MINOR
>> mkdir /tmp/usbmnt
>> mount /tmp/usbdev /tmp/usbmnt
>> mount /tmp/usbmnt/PATHTOISO /mnt
>>
>> followed by lines 294ff of the init script launch the graphical
>> installer (although the resolution is messed up - probably because I did
>> not bother to change any of the graphic stuff in Grub), and I am able to
>> complete the installation..
>>
>> so I think it must be something in your environment / setup.
>>
>> (note that there are TWO debug shells, one in the initrd with very
>> limited commands, and one in the installer environment with access to a
>> lot more tools - a quick test is to run something like "lsblk", since
>> that only exists in the latter environment ;). maybe your switch to the
>> installer environment did not work, and you are still in the initrd
>> shell? that would explain why you can't execute "xinit")
>>
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