Can you tell me how you got a live sid?
me? I already explained, I used installed siduction. I dist-upgraded it to current sid again today, built another snapshot from that installed system. Writing from the new snapshot right now!
I could install the Debian kernel and do another snapshot and see what happens but for now, the only core difference from straight sid should be:
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:~$ uname -r
3.4-0.towo.2-siduction-686
I don't use virtualbox much (too slow) Don't know much about live-build either, never use it... I like debootstrap then manual chroot for the rest but haven't done that in sid for a long time. Maybe lb is broken in current sid, or something is missing?
This snapshot is currently booted using filesystem.squashfs, vmlinuz and initrd.img extracted from the ISO and copied to a fixed disk partition. Not burned a cd nor put on usb yet here. This is a quick, easy, non-destructive method to boot a live system.
Starting it from a grub-legacy menu like this:
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title squashboot sid snapshot
root (hd0,1)
kernel (hd0,1)/sid/vmlinuz live-media-path=/sid boot=live ip=frommedia showmounts union=aufs quiet vga=791
initrd (hd0,1)/sid/initrd.img
Note my cmdline specifies "live-media-path" (necessary if filesystem.squashfs is in a custom path) If the default, /live, has changed thet's news to me but simple to find out.
Note also, if another /live/filesystem.squashfs exists anywhere on your system, live-boot (unless that has changed) will pick the first one it finds, not necessarily the right one!
BTW we discussed the new live mountpoints earlier (this is
in the live session,
not the directory structure on the actual cd image)
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# ls -l /lib/live
total 14
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 572 Oct 28 11:24 boot
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3913 Sep 30 16:27 boot-init.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 281 Oct 2 09:42 boot.sh
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 761 Oct 28 11:25 config
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4841 Sep 30 16:27 config.sh
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Oct 28 15:29 image
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 260 Oct 31 17:42 overlay
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 Oct 31 17:42 rootfs
# ls /live
ls: cannot access /live: No such file or directory
overlay, image and rootfs DIR's do not/should not exist on the installed system, refracta-installer will need to exclude them.. (not tried to install that snapshot yet)