CentOS live CD does not boot

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Seems very trivial but still …
I followed the instructions here:

https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/wiki/CreateImage

None of the images created boot. I tried VMWARE Workstation (v6.5) as well as VirtualBox v3.2OSE.

In both cases I see the grub screen, and upon loading the kernel, the VM Guest freezes and nothing happens.

I used CentOS 5.5 to create the images, can someone confirm this behavior ? Or at least tell me how to debug it ?

Thanks in advance,

Best Answer

First I would try one of the ready-made LiveCDs, available for download here. If those do not work, you know you have some problem in your environment. If those do you know there is some issue with the livecd-create script. There is more explanation as to how the creation process works here, so I would step through this bit by bit to see where corruption is occuring.

Another tip is that you need to be careful in certain situations, for example if you are creating an image on a 64-bit system but your VM is 32-bit.

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Diagnostic Live CD

I do not know of any completely automated products but for stress testing/benchmarking there is:

http://www.inquisitor.ru/download.html

And as for virus scanning there is UBCD4Win which has several virus scanners on it that can be updated at the time of build and you just build a new one when you need to use it.

http://www.ubcd4win.com/

Cron – When Does cron.daily Run

For the distributions you mention:

On CentOS 5.4 (Should be same for RHEL5)

grep run-parts /etc/crontab

01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly

So cron.daily runs at 04:02am.

Same on CentOS 4.8

Best Answer

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Diagnostic Live CD

Cron – When Does cron.daily Run

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