Bug 447345
| Summary: | RFE: livecd-iso-to-disk should have support for virtual disk images | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Carl Roth <roth> |
| Component: | livecd-tools | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | davidz, katzj |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2009-07-15 08:16:39 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Carl Roth
2008-05-19 16:11:49 UTC
If you want to do a file, just use losetup on it to make a block device to use. Giving people more ways to break things by letting you specify a regular file is a path to things breaking. Can you suggest another solution? losetup doesn't create a valid block device (at least, not one that the livecd tools can recognize: # dd if=/dev/zero of=anaconda-loop.img bs=1048576 count=128 128+0 records in 128+0 records out 134217728 bytes (134 MB) copied, 0.822324 s, 163 MB/s # dev=`losetup -f` # echo $dev /dev/loop1 # mkfs.ext3 $dev mke2fs 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008) ... # livecd-iso-to-disk boot.iso $dev Verifying image... boot.iso: Could not get pvd data Unable to read the disc checksum from the primary volume descriptor. This probably means the disc was created without adding the checksum.Are you SURE you want to continue? Press Enter to continue or ctrl-c to abort Error finding block device of /dev/loop1. Aborting! Cleaning up to exit... This is the reason I filed this RFE -- the livecd tools are littered with udev and /sys references that don't work on anything but physical devices. Should be fixed in git. This message is a reminder that Fedora 9 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 9. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '9'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 9's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 9 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug to the applicable version. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |