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Latest beta ISO does not have a boot partition #306

Closed joevaughan closed 9 months ago

joevaughan commented 9 months ago

Issue Description

Build #113 of Vanilla OS 2 Orchid (beta) does not have a proper boot partition and hence can't be started.

image

Difficult to test if it doesn't boot ;D

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Download the ISO
  2. Load the ISO in balena etcher
  3. The message in the image is displayed.
  4. Hit Continue and burn the image to USB
  5. Attempt to install in machine - USB disk doesn't boot.

On what version of Vanilla OS this happens?

Unreleased

Additional Information

No response

WebShapedBiz commented 9 months ago

Same here.

kabe-inc commented 9 months ago

Presumably this is why I get the following error code when trying to run the ISO in a VM:

Booting from DVD/CD... Boot failed: Could not read from CDROM (code 9009) Booting from Hard Disk... Boot failed: not a bootable disk No bootable device.

axtloss commented 9 months ago

Presumably this is why I get the following error code when trying to run the ISO in a VM:

Booting from DVD/CD... Boot failed: Could not read from CDROM (code 9009) Booting from Hard Disk... Boot failed: not a bootable disk No bootable device.

this is completely unrelated, you set your VM to legacy bios while vanilla os only support UEFI.

axtloss commented 9 months ago

regarding the error in balena etcher, you can just press continue and it'll work fine

kabe-inc commented 9 months ago

Presumably this is why I get the following error code when trying to run the ISO in a VM:

Booting from DVD/CD... Boot failed: Could not read from CDROM (code 9009) Booting from Hard Disk... Boot failed: not a bootable disk No bootable device.

this is completely unrelated, you set your VM to legacy bios while vanilla os only support UEFI.

Thanks for the info. I followed the documentation here but it didn't mention that. It doesn't work with virt-manager or gnome-boxes by default.

taukakao commented 9 months ago

The documentation is not for the beta version

rbpawdev commented 9 months ago

Running into the same issue with latest build 116 (build of 2/2/24). Same issue as originally noted above, usb stick won't boot, won't even show in BIOS boot up options. Burning in a Debian machine using Etcher.

axtloss commented 9 months ago

make sure your system support UEFI boot and its enabled.

rbpawdev commented 9 months ago

Yes my system supports UEFI and it is enabled. Debian Bookworm and Vanilla Kinetic installation media boot fine but not Orchid.

WebShapedBiz commented 9 months ago

Same here, Acer Swift 3, UEFI enabled, secure boot disabled, USD drive detected in BIOS as a device but not bootable.

xbrunx commented 9 months ago

Same here, and UEFI enabled...

taukakao commented 9 months ago

Looking at 4.5 from https://live-team.pages.debian.net/live-manual/html/live-manual.en.html#224 it seems that some UEFIs don't handle hybrid images well. I will make a hdd image for you to test. If it works, we need to think about if we should drop DVD/CD support.

rbpawdev commented 9 months ago

Looking at 4.5 from https://live-team.pages.debian.net/live-manual/html/live-manual.en.html#224 it seems that some UEFIs don't handle hybrid images well. I will make a hdd image for you to test. If it works, we need to think about if we should drop DVD/CD support.

Great, let's see if that works

taukakao commented 9 months ago

I mean you can try it if you want but I'm not hopeful it works since it already crashes Boxes. https://github.com/taukakao/vanilla-live-iso/actions/runs/7777241141

Also, I checked and virtually any other OS/tool uses an ISO and have an MBR sector in their live disk (Fedora, Ventoy and even debian) while we don't so the issue must be somewhere else.

taukakao commented 9 months ago

Also, the kinetic iso did also have the partition table.

rbpawdev commented 9 months ago

Also, the kinetic iso did also have the partition table.

yep, I thought the same. I was hopeful but skeptical. I think this will be a deal breaker for quite a few of us. Not knowledgeable enough to solution this myself.

taukakao commented 9 months ago

Hi, I possibly have a working iso. For anyone who wants to test: https://github.com/taukakao/vanilla-live-iso/actions/runs/7777637131

The problem seems to be setting grub-efi in this line: https://github.com/Vanilla-OS/live-iso/blob/0a6a69fd8df966fbe3d59e555298f476baa980f7/etc/auto/config#L50

From what I can tell this is because the hdd mode doesn't support the grub-efi flag, so the hybrid-iso becomes just a regular iso, which is not as compatible as a hybrid iso.

rbpawdev commented 9 months ago

Hi, I possibly have a working iso. For anyone who wants to test: https://github.com/taukakao/vanilla-live-iso/actions/runs/7777637131

The problem seems to be setting grub-efi in this line:

https://github.com/Vanilla-OS/live-iso/blob/0a6a69fd8df966fbe3d59e555298f476baa980f7/etc/auto/config#L50

From what I can tell this is because the hdd mode doesn't support the grub-efi flag, so the hybrid-iso becomes just a regular iso, which is not as compatible as a hybrid iso.

The unzipped iso has a date of 1/30/24. Did you package the right file in the zip?

taukakao commented 9 months ago

It sets the date automatically so it should have the current date. Make sure you downloaded the right file and that you are working with the newest .zip If you already downloaded it before the new one might be called VanillaOS2(1).zip or something

rbpawdev commented 9 months ago

Thanks Taukakao, the file worked to get me to a bootable usb stick and to the Vanilla Installation but then it just hangs forever once I get to the Installation point. I will try on different hardware over the next few days. Thanks for looking into this, your changes helped.

WebShapedBiz commented 9 months ago

Hi, I possibly have a working iso. For anyone who wants to test: https://github.com/taukakao/vanilla-live-iso/actions/runs/7777637131

The problem seems to be setting grub-efi in this line:

https://github.com/Vanilla-OS/live-iso/blob/0a6a69fd8df966fbe3d59e555298f476baa980f7/etc/auto/config#L50

From what I can tell this is because the hdd mode doesn't support the grub-efi flag, so the hybrid-iso becomes just a regular iso, which is not as compatible as a hybrid iso.

Thank you @taukakao, that ISO image worked fine for me.

taukakao commented 9 months ago

Fixed by #311