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live-initramfs package

Trouble creating live netboot system

Asked by Simeon Walker

Are there any Ubuntu focussed docs for live-initramfs and live-helper?

I am reading the Debian docs but things just don't seem to be working right. the image created can't mount the root, it never make an nfs request. There are no live hooks in the chroot/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts directory.

I am getting the error "can't open /scripts/live" referred to here: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/FAQ
Putting the live-initramfs package in the directory as shown has no effect.

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Simeon Walker (simbloke) said : 		#1

Replying to myself...

The problem is that the live-initramfs package is in universe but live-helper (even on Ubuntu) defaults to the Debian sections that don't know about universe.

The solution is to explicitly configure the required sections:
lh_config --sections "main restricted universe"