[Testbed-admins] Can't boot after imageunzipping a customized image

[Ben Burnett <bburnett@atcorp.com>]

We've created and customized the images described in the
documentation, then imagezipped them back to create the ndz files on
boss.  but whenever we unzip them to another pc to try to boot them
into the new OS, the interactive mode prompt either doesn't recognize
the OS on the drive, or doesn't see it as bootable.  is the master
boot record getting copied correctly?  what information can I send for
you to look at to see?

Also when we unzipped the fedora core 8 image onto the FBSD62+FC8
machine then remade the new image, imagezip couldn't determine the
superblock saw raw compression was needed.  same was true for CentOS
and WinXP, all are being forced to use raw compression.  this is
extremely slow, is there a better way to determine what compression to
use, is there a command line option for imagezip to specify it?

These are the images we have:
FBSD62+FC8 - pending
FBSD62 - pending
FC8 - saw "disk 0" but hangs trying to boot to it....
CentOS - pending
WinXP - wouldn't boot, saw an NTFS drive, but couldn't boot

Thanks,
--Ben

Ben Burnett
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