2026-09-17 19:37:42 <ncopa> tomalok: new stable releases are out
2026-09-17 21:32:18 <halloy8830> hi folks! I'm trying to get Alpine Cloud (generic) images to grab CIDATA from an ISO image at /dev/vdb but it doesn't seem to like the idea
2026-09-17 21:32:29 <whitequark> am I doing something obviously wrong?
2026-09-17 21:53:30 <Ariadne> and it's the python cloud-init version, not the tiny-cloud-init one?
2026-09-17 21:54:04 <whitequark> I got the "generic" one from https://www.alpinelinux.org/cloud/
2026-09-17 21:54:11 <whitequark> oh
2026-09-17 21:54:15 <whitequark> oh I understand everything now
2026-09-17 22:08:25 <whitequark> okay no I tried the python cloud-init images and there doesn't seem to be any difference
2026-09-17 22:08:33 <whitequark> it also doesn't seem to pick up the network interface for some reason
2026-09-17 22:08:41 <whitequark> just sits there at login prompt
2026-09-17 22:09:30 <whitequark> no, sorry, it does configue the network interface after all. just doesn't run cloud-init
2026-09-17 22:16:27 <whitequark> oh, I see what happened; it picked up the wrong terminal to print output to in the middle of the boot process
2026-09-17 23:17:00 <tomalok> ncopa thanks, i'll start working on building the new images
2026-09-17 23:20:16 <whitequark> figured it all out, many thanks to minimal 
2026-09-17 23:20:46 <whitequark> turns out i needed to pass UsePAM yes to sshd, and the tty selection in initramfs is wrong for this virtual hardware configuration