*launch the livecd-creator
On 18 October 2013 21:43, Robert Xu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rolf, great testing! > > The reason fedora's livecd-creator needs root is because it needs to > relabel the USB. As you've noted, the label is too long otherwise. You can > use su -m to preserve your environment and launch the GUI. > > > On 18 October 2013 20:15, Rolf Pedersen <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> On 10/18/2013 04:04 PM, Raphaël Jadot wrote: >> >> Hello, this is the screen i get when i'm starting omlx 2013 beta with usb >> pen. >> >> -- >> Best regards, meilleures salutations >> (K9-Mail Android) >> Raphaël Jadot >> >> I've been playing with dd, unetbootin, Fedora's liveusb-creator from the >> tarball, and the rpm of Fedora's program built for Rosa 2012.1, this last >> the most. I must be a glutton for punishment :P >> >> In Rosa, liveusb-creator labels the target partition "FEDORA". I had a >> thought to use gparted to change the label to OpenMandriva_2013.0, as >> advised here, earlier. Only fat32 or ext will work with this program and, >> commonly, I see this type of limitation, mostly to fat, for the live usb >> creation tools. In gparted, a fat32 partition label comes out truncated to >> "OpenMan" or thereabouts. In ext2, it comes out "OpenMandriva_201". I'm >> not seeing the partition label as being an issue but I have not had a >> successful boot. Well, partial success. If I just start liveusb-creator >> from the menu, the properly partitioned and formatted key is detected and I >> can browse to OpenMandriva.alpha.20131015.x86_64.iso. When I push >> "Create...", the output looks like: >> >> OpenMandriva.alpha.20131015.x86_64.iso selected >> Warning: The Master Boot Record on your device does not match your >> system's syslinux MBR. If you have trouble booting this stick, try running >> the liveusb-creator with the --reset-mbr option. >> Verifying filesystem... >> Verifying ISO MD5 checksum >> ISO MD5 checksum passed >> Extracting live image to USB device... >> Setting up OLPC boot file... >> Installing bootloader... >> >> The program completes and the key boots to a blinking cursor. The bright >> side: keyboard is responsive and I can three-finger to reboot. If I follow >> the hint to reset the MBR, I call the program from normal user prompt as: >> >> liveusb-creator -m >> >> (I can't invoke as root, something about the display and privileges, I >> guess.) Anyway, that method creates a key that boots to a menu but ends in >> dracut prompt with unresponsive keyboard, pretty standard for all the >> recent isos on this machine. I see choosing "Install OpenMandriva 2013 (in >> normal graphics)" mode worked for me before, so I will try that, next: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00617.html >> >> I'm back! The latest ext2 usb key, labelled " OpenMandriva_201", did not >> boot in the "Normal" install mode; it dropped to dracut, unresponsive >> keyboard, also. I will try with the DVD, later. It might be we are >> dealing with an intermittent, also mentioned, here, before. There is a >> history of Mandr*|Rosa not liking my hardware, some picture of which can be >> seen here: >> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1286780/openmandriva/inxi.txt >> >> Anyway, my kernel fails to find a disk/by-uuid, fwiw. >> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1286780/openmandriva/images/20131015-usb.jpg >> >> >> >> -- http://rolfpedersen.biz/www.cslb.ca.gov >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Robert Xu :: protocol.by/rxu > -- Robert Xu :: protocol.by/rxu
