Pidora 2014 compose

Warning!
This page is a work in progress and is not yet finished. There may also be better ways of doing this, I may mention that along the way, though I have not had time to try all things.

Pidora Compose on x86_64

Notes

• Create a fedora arm virtual machine
• Create a custom pidora image based on the pidora 2014 build packages
• Custom kickstart file
• Requires old packages of anaconda(anaconda-17.29-1.fc17) and lorax(lorax-17.17-1.fc17)
• Let us know if you get this working with newest packages ^

Process

1. Install a virtual machine setup on fedora including virt-manager
2. Download a fedora arm image: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/20/Images/armhfp/
3. Copy out the boot files from the image: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/20/Images/armhfp/
4. Create a new virtual machine with virt-manager

• Choose the arm architecture
• Use the vexpress-a15
• kernel: /directory_to_extracted_files/boot/vmlinuz-3.11.10-301.fc20.armv7hl
• Initrd: /directory_to_extracted_files/boot/uInitrd-3.11.10-301.fc20.armv7hl

• DTB: /directory_to_extracted_files/boot/dtb-3.11.10-301.fc20.armv7hl/vexpress-v2p-ca15-tc1.dtb

• Kernel args: console=ttyAMA0 rw root=/dev/vda3 rootwait
• ram should be at least than 1.2GB(I tested with 2GB)
• Only use 1 cpu or it crashes(I don't know why...)

1. Expand image or add extra space. You will need disk space equal to (pidora composed image size * 2) + pidora chroot size. I used about 20 GB, was enough for multiple composes.