[Bug 314291] [NEW] Cannot boot live CD using bootcdwrite

[nephew.tim]

Public bug reported:

Hello all,

Have a problem here that I am hoping to have solved. I personally prefer
Ubuntu (being South African), but if we cannot get this to work, we will
need to move back to Debian. :(

Previously using Debian 3.x and 4.0, the bootcd system worked well and
allowed us to successfully backup our systems.

We installed a PDMENU script for a user on the running system to restore
the image using bootcd2disk.

What it looks like is that from Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server (i386 - have not
tried others), IDE support has been totally removed and replaced by
serial technology.

I found I had to take the following steps in order to get the image
created:

1.) Symbolically link /boot/System.map-$kernelversion to /kernelinfo
2.) Remove symbolic link for /bin/sh to /bin/dash and use /bin/bash instead. (This I believe has been solved in Ubuntu 8.10)
3.) Modified the GRUB bit in /usr/share/bootcd/bootcd2probe to reflect the title I want when the image is nuked down.

Besides those modifications, I have changed nothing else.

The image is created perfectly and I can easily burn the ISO to disk. When trying to boot the disk, the probe happens and does a wonderful countdown (in the spirit of the New Year) ;) .
Thereafter, it complains that it is unable to change directory to /proc/ide. This, I am assuming is the filesystem on the CDFS.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
>From Tim

Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS Server i386
bootcd_3.08ubuntu (even been as high as version 3.12)

** Affects: bootcd (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Cannot boot live CD using bootcdwrite
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