@Exception: message"""
pass
+class VerifyException(Exception):
+ """Throw critical exception if there is an fatal error when verifying something.
+
+ @Exception: message"""
+ pass
+
# The following two functions help to operate on strings as
# array (list) of bytes (octets). In Python 3000, the bytes
sys.exit("Error: please run this script with uid 0 (root).")
+def check_boot_flag(device):
+ with open(device, 'r') as image:
+ data = image.read(512)
+ bootcode = data[440:]
+ if bootcode[6] == '\x80':
+ logging.debug("bootflag is enabled")
+ else:
+ logging.debug("bootflag is NOT enabled")
+ raise VerifyException("Device %s does not have the bootflag set. "
+ "Please enable it to be able to boot." % device)
+
+
def mkfs_fat16(device):
"""Format specified device with VFAT/FAT16 filesystem.
version_files = search_file('grml-version', mountpath, lst_return=True)
if not version_files:
- logging.critical("Error: could not find grml-version file.")
- raise
+ if mountpath.startswith("/live/image"):
+ logging.critical("Error: could not find grml-version file.")
+ logging.critical("Looks like your system is running from RAM but required files are not available.")
+ logging.critical("Please either boot without toram=... or use boot option toram instead of toram=...")
+ cleanup()
+ sys.exit(1)
+ else:
+ logging.critical("Error: could not find grml-version file.")
+ cleanup()
+ sys.exit(1)
flavours = []
logging.debug("version_files = %s", version_files)
remove_device_mountpoint = True
try:
check_for_fat(device)
+ check_boot_flag(device)
mount(device, device_mountpoint, ['-o', 'utf8,iocharset=iso8859-1'])
+ except VerifyException, error:
+ logging.critical("Fatal: %s", error)
+ raise
except CriticalException, error:
try:
mount(device, device_mountpoint, "")