adding Combo update causes kernel panic on boot?

[mstevens]

This is my inititial attempt to use InstaDMG. I’ve built and installed basic images from the 10.5 DVD, as well as with an additional custom package that does various local configurations without any problems. However, if I include a “Combo” update ( I’ve tried both 10.5.6 and 10.5.7, ) my test system kernel panics when I try to boot it after applying the image. I’ve removed all my custom stuff, so this is occurring when using an image generated with nothing beyond the base OS install and a Combo update included. The only customization I’m applying is my choices file;

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PrinterDriversGroup
AdditionalFonts
LanguageTranslations

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I’m using InstaDMG_1.4b4. My test machine is an Intel Mini … I’m running InstaDMG from the same machine when booted from an external FW drive. I’ve applied Combo updates to the system after installing from a BaseOS-only build done with InstaDMG with no problems.

The output of my dmg build is below. This apparently works fine for everybody else, no Idea why I’m getting kernel panics.

10:10:57 ######InstaDMG build initiated######
10:10:57 ######Mounting Mac OS X installer image######
Mounting the main OS Installer Disk from: ./InstallerFiles/BaseOS/Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg at: /tmp/instaDMGMount.kbCLiL
Mac OS X installer image mounted
10:11:02 ######Creating intermediary disk image######
Image mounted at /dev/disk4
Running on Intel Platform: Setting format to GPT
Intimediary image creation complete
10:13:33 ######Beginning Installation from /tmp/instaDMGMount.kbCLiL######
I’m running on Leopard or later. Checking for InstallerChoices.xml file
InstallerChoices.xml file found. Applying Choices
Installing BaseSystem…..
Installing Essentials…..
Installing BootCamp…..
Installing BSD…..
Installing iPodSupport…..
Installing PodcastCapture…..
Installing Directory…..
Installing JavaTools…..
Installing AdditionalEssentials…..
Installing AdditionalSpeechVoices…..
Installing AsianLanguagesSupport…..
Installing MediaFiles…..
Installing MigrationAssistant…..
Installing Mail…..
Installing AddressBook…..
Installing iCal…..
Installing Automator…..
Installing DVDPlayer…..
Installing iTunes…..
Installing iChat…..
Installing Java…..
Installing Safari…..
Installing OxfordDictionaries…..
Installing X11User…..
Installing ACL…..
Installing OSInstall…..
Base OS installed
Compacting and saving cached image to: ./Caches/BaseImageCache/6F8BA746:93a80d9eeb787e4fbef6894360ed4bcfa92c490a.dmg
Remounting the image with a shadow file (/tmp/instaDMGTemp.BqJpgc.sparseimage)
10:32:01 ######Beginning Update Installs from ./InstallerFiles/BaseUpdates######
Installing MacOSXUpdCombo10.5.7.pkg from ./InstallerFiles/BaseUpdates/01
Installing MacOSXUpdCombo10.5.7…..
11:05:54 ######Beginning Update Installs from ./InstallerFiles/CustomPKG######
11:05:54 ######Correcting some generic installer errors######
Correcting symlinks that point off the disk
Closing programs that have opened files on the disk
Deleting Extensions.mkext cache file
Deleting cache files created during installations
11:21:35 ######Creating the deployment DMG and scanning for ASR######
Rename the deployment volume: InstaDMG
Create a read-only image
Scanning image for ASR: ./OutputFiles/09-06-19.dmg
ASR image scan complete
11:35:04 ######Cleaning up######
Ejecting images
rmdir: true: No such file or directory
Removing scratch DMG
11:35:04 ######InstaDMG Complete######

[M@]

This apparently was caused by the system I was building on … I did a clean setup on another machine and did the same test ( base OS, 10.5.7 Combo only ) and it restored / booted just fine on my test box. Perhaps there’s a problem with doing builds when booted from an external drive? My ( apparently bad ) build / test procedure was to boot from the external FW drive, do my dmg build, apply it to the internal drive, and boot from internal drive to test.

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