Correcting The Automation Of Live-Media Creation Tools

I helped to create a simple script which could assist in the automation and creation of ARM-based images after standardized tools like kickstart, lorax, and livemedia-creator have been used. The problem is that some ARM devices (like OMAP) require there to be a FAT partition and filesystem listed first which contains proper binaries to assist with the initial booting process. Since x86 machines don’t have this requirement, their creation tools don’t include an option to help set this up. The python script listed below helps to take an outputted image and just modify it slightly to meet these requirements for us automatically. Here is an example of the output along with its source code.

# fdisk -l F18-panda-20121218.img
...
                 Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
F18-panda-20121218.img1   *        2048      411647      204800    6  FAT16
F18-panda-20121218.img2          411648     1435647      512000   82  Linux swap / Solaris
F18-panda-20121218.img3         1435648     5941247     2252800   83  Linux

# ./livemedia-modifier --image=F18-panda-20121218.img --platform=omap
...
loop deleted : /dev/loop0

Modification completed successfully!

# fdisk -l F18-panda-20121218.img
...
                 Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
F18-panda-20121218.img1   *        2048      411647      204800    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
F18-panda-20121218.img2          411648     1435647      512000   82  Linux swap / Solaris
F18-panda-20121218.img3         1435648     5941247     2252800   83  Linux

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Source Code (Git Hub)
Binary Program (Fedora People)
Fedora Wiki

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