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Author: Daniel Reurich
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Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] Devuan Ascii on EC2
Hi Ralph,

I thought it was the standard Devuan Kernel, and not the AWS special ...

Dan

On 18/04/19 17:48, Ralph Ronnquist wrote:
> After digging into my memory banks, I think I got that kernel as an
> attempt to come past that "bad kernel" gate of import-image, but that
> still didn't work. Rather I needed to use import-snapshot, which doesn't
> seem to have that gate. But it might require a raw image; I never tried
> anything else.
>
> I don't remember where I got that kernel maybe a debian (?) or possibly
> I compiled myself, but probably not. I obviously forgot it had
> non-standard kernel. But as I remeber it now, the key was really to use
> import-snapshot and not import-image. Perhaps it takes a vmdk. Otherwise
> you'll need to convert to raw.
>
> On Thu., 18 Apr. 2019, 02:52 Alexey Zilber <alexeyzilber@???
> <mailto:alexeyzilber@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     That's really helpful Ralph.  Some of that stuff was still in
>     /root/.bash_history btw on the vm, no worries though, not that much
>     stuff leaked.
>     I see that you use a raw image and do a snapshot import, that
>     differs a bit from what I was doing (I was following what Packer
>     does with amazon-import).

>
>     Any hints on what you did with the kernel?  Did you roll your own?

>
>     -Alex

>
>     On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 10:36 PM Ralph Ronnquist
>     <ralph.ronnquist@??? <mailto:ralph.ronnquist@gmail.com>> wrote:

>
>         Right, it was some months ago; started on a write up
>         at https://git.devuan.org/ralph.ronnquist/upload-automation/blob/master/notes.md
>         as I aimed for automated building... Never completed 🙁

>
>         Ralph

>
>         On Wed., 17 Apr. 2019, 16:13 Alexey Zilber
>         <alexeyzilber@??? <mailto:alexeyzilber@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>             Thanks for the info about the Devuan ami in Sydney.  Not
>             sure if cloud-init would be the issue because it's an import
>             problem, not a spinning up problem.  I've seen people build
>             AMI's without cloud-init and things have worked. 
>              Regardless, I used a variant of
>             the https://github.com/cloux/aws-devuan repo cloud.cfg, they
>             have a very "non-standard" build of Devuan on us-east-1
>             using runit, so I wanted to build something as close as
>             possible to the base Devuan Ascii distro.
>             Looking at "Devuan 2.0 ASCII (rrq)", I can see it differs
>             somewhat from the base distro as well.  Namely the kernel is
>             upgraded, seemingly via backports, but not ascii-backports:

>
>             /Linux ip-172-31-11-154 4.18.0-0.bpo.1-cloud-amd64 #1 SMP
>             Debian 4.18.6-1~bpo9+1 (2018-09-13) x86_64 GNU/Linux/

>
>             I don't know where this kernel image came from. Kernel 4.18
>             isn't in any Devuan or Debian backports.

>
>             So I installed the signed kernel from ascii-backports and
>             have the same issue:

>
>             "StatusMessage": "ClientError: Unsupported kernel version
>             4.19.0-0.bpo.4-cloud-amd64"

>
>
>
>             So I'm stumped.  I grabbed the kernel .config from the ec2
>             instance and am trying to build my own kernel.  But I don't
>             have much faith left in it working....

>
>             -Alex

>
>
>             On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 2:00 AM Ralph Ronnquist
>             <ralph.ronnquist@???
>             <mailto:ralph.ronnquist@gmail.com>> wrote:

>
>                 Yes, I have on public in Ireland, same in Sydney.
>                 Possibly the key was the fixed-up cloud-init package
>                 that CenturionDan made. As I'm travelling until next
>                 week I can't look up details. But you could try it out,
>                 named "Devuan 2.0 ASCII (rrq)".

>
>                 Ralph.

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