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
