I just installed qemu again and successfully booted both the latest
unmodified Refracta and ExeGNU ISO's, through to the desktop, without
noticing any significant errors

qemu-system-x86_64 -m 384 -cdrom snapshot_current.iso

"snapshot_current.iso" is a symlink to whatever I'm testing at the time.

Bad news is, it's too slow to be of much use (at least on this box)
beyond checking the isolinux boot department.


On 24 April 2016 at 14:10, David Hare <davidahare@???> wrote:
> Yes, exegnu is built from a (devuan-) bootstrap chroot and uses custom
> scripts to convert for live image, not live-build. Those scripts have
> evolved to now include quite a bit of the excellent Refracta code
> base.
>
> The box I do them on at the moment is a 64-bit intel core2 but an
> older one. It can't boot any 64-bit images with qemu nor virtualbox. I
> test them either with grub "loopback" or from a usb. They should also
> boot on eufi machines but I can't test that either.
>
> I started doing them when Trinity Desktop (the KDE3 fork) began. since
> nobody else was. I didn't get on with kde4 when it arrived in Sid.
> System resource usage of TDE is comparable to XFCE4 (which I also use,
> but am increasingly concerned about gnome/gtk3 direction). TDE's
> systemd requirements go no further than dbus, already sorted in
> Devuan.
>
> I switched from Wheezy to to Devuan at it's very beginning.
>
> On 23 April 2016 at 23:57, fsmithred <fsmithred@???> wrote:
>> On 04/23/2016 07:46 AM, fsmithred wrote:
>>> On 04/23/2016 04:41 AM, Jaromil wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> BTW, there is a new devuan-based exegnulinux ISO with TDE:
>>>> http://www.exegnulinux.net/
>>>>
>>>> just tested with qemu, it doesn't boots (error -28 on /bin/sh execution)
>>>>
>>>> I suspect they use Debian's live-cd scripts? that may be the problem
>>>>
>>>> we had to fork that too, Frits did
>>>>
>>>> https://git.devuan.org/devuan-packages/live-build
>>>>
>>>> (all welcome to contribute a README for this)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ciao
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I can confirm that error on booting exegnu64_devuan_20150914.iso with
>>> qemu. It will boot in virtualbox.
>>>
>>> AFAIK, exegnu is built from a debootstrap install and then converted to a
>>> live cd using a script similar to refractasnapshot. (We share a lot of
>>> code.) I don't know all the details on this build, but I know how to find out.
>>>
>>> -fsr
>>>
>>
>>
>> Refracta isos won't boot in qemu, either. I tried jessie-based isos back
>> to December 2014, and they all failed, including one Debian Jessie with
>> systemd. Wheezy-based isos worked properly.
>>
>> I rebooted into wheezy to try with an older qemu and had the same results.
>> I'm surprised by that. I thought I used qemu with some of the early jessie
>> isos I made.
>>
>> -fsr
>>
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