[arch-releng] Beta2 ISOs and final release

[Aaron Griffin]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
<vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
>> Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>
>>> Road Map:
>>>    http://bugs.archlinux.org/roadmap/proj6
>>>
>>> Bugs fixed in Beta2:
>>>    http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12936
>>>    http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12896 with rootdelay=X specified
>>>    http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11408 isolinux fallback ISOs
>>>    http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11152
>>>
>>> Bugs fixed in git, not on an ISO:
>>>    http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12896 (dupe, above) - with usbdelay
>>> instead of rootdelay
>>>    http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12944
>>>    http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12947
>>>
>>> So. Please test the beta2 bugs and issues, so we can close them. I
>>> want to make sure there's no other installer bugs before I release
>>> another package and rebuild the ISOs
>>>
>>> If all goes well, I'll build and release the final 2009.01 release on Wed or so.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Aaron
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I booted (virtualbox 2.1.2) the archlinux-2009.01-beta2-core-x86_64.iso
>> and display these two errors messages at startup:
>>
>> :: Running Hook [archiso-early]
>> /init: 9: cannot create /: Is a directory
>> /init: 9: /etc/modprobe.d/usb-delay: not found
>> :: Running Hook [udev]
>>
>> The instalation runs OK, but when installing GRUB, this not installed.
>> /arch/setup, display that are installed OK but in /tmp/grub.log
>>
>> The file /mnt/boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly.
>>
>> I used the same configuration of partitions and filesystems that with i686
>>
>> sda1 / with EXt3 or EXT4
>> sda5 /var
>> sda6 /home
>>
>> Trying to installing manual with grub-install fail with the same error.
>> md5sum of the stage1 are OK.
>>
>>
>>
> BTW: booting with archlinux-2009.01-beta2-core-i686.iso in this machine
> that installed arch64 and executing:
>
> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
> grub-install --no-floppy --recheck --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda
>
> works OK, and grub is now installed.

Is the only difference the --no-floppy switch?