Re: F15 live won't boot?
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Alan Evans ame.fed...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: I just downloaded (by bittorrent) the F15 x86_64 Live CD image, and made a Live USB stick with LiveUSB Creator. I found on one occasion that the Fedora LiveUSB Creator failed, but livecd-iso-to-disk (in the livecd-tools package) worked for me. I haven't used livecd-iso-to-disk in a long time. However, it refuses to even try: The media check is complete, the result is: PASS. It is OK to use this media. USB filesystem must be vfat or ext[23] Cleaning up to exit... Did you umount the flash drive before running livecd-iso-to-disk? If not then it won't work! if your flash drive is /dev/sdb1 then you need to umount /dev/sdb1 as root before using livecd-iso-to-disk to write to that partition. -- mike c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: F15 live won't boot?
I found on one occasion that the Fedora LiveUSB Creator failed, but livecd-iso-to-disk (in the livecd-tools package) worked for me. I used livecd-iso-to-disk for 8G USB Flash and it works fine. The tricky thing is that one needs to make sure that the 'parted' command did make the stick bootable. regards, -- Abu Attar Musharih Now Living in Tokyo Japan [globus@localhost ~]$ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686 #1 SMP Mon May 9 20:43:14 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: F15 live won't boot?
Abu Attar Musharih wrote: I used livecd-iso-to-disk for 8G USB Flash and it works fine. The tricky thing is that one needs to make sure that the 'parted' command did make the stick bootable. I usually say livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr Not sure exactly what this does. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
F15 live won't boot?
I just downloaded (by bittorrent) the F15 x86_64 Live CD image, and made a Live USB stick with LiveUSB Creator. When Trying to boot this on my Samsung RC512 laptop, the boot process halts, displaying: Dropping to debug shell. sh: can't access tty: job control turned off dracut:/# What does it mean?... -Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: F15 live won't boot?
On 06/07/2011 02:50 PM, Alan Evans wrote: Dropping to debug shell. sh: can't access tty: job control turned off Sadly F15 is a bit of a pile of warm poop - you'll probably need to udpate dracut to get this to work ... see if that helps. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: F15 live won't boot?
On 06/07/2011 03:31 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: On 06/07/2011 02:50 PM, Alan Evans wrote: Dropping to debug shell. sh: can't access tty: job control turned off Sadly F15 is a bit of a pile of warm poop - you'll probably need to udpate dracut to get this to work ... see if that helps. If you cannot for some reason build a new F15 Live - then there are some work arounds here that may help: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F15_bugs#Live_USB_overlay_.28persistent_storage.29_not_mounted_on_boot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: F15 live won't boot?
On 06/07/2011 01:32 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: On 06/07/2011 03:31 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: On 06/07/2011 02:50 PM, Alan Evans wrote: Dropping to debug shell. sh: can't access tty: job control turned off Sadly F15 is a bit of a pile of warm poop - you'll probably need to udpate dracut to get this to work ... see if that helps. If you cannot for some reason build a new F15 Live - then there are some work arounds here that may help: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F15_bugs#Live_USB_overlay_.28persistent_storage.29_not_mounted_on_boot It isn't just F15 live. F15 net install and F15 complete DVD will not boot in libvirt/kemu. At least for me. I have re-verified sha256sum hashes, good but no boot. The DVD locks on uncompressing the initramfs. I am not sure about the net-install as I don't have time to watch it boot right now. It would be good if we could get new images if they can be fixed. Trever -- Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. -- Mark Twain signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: F15 live won't boot?
On 06/07/2011 03:41 PM, Trever L. Adams wrote: It isn't just F15 live. F15 net install and F15 complete DVD will not boot in libvirt/kemu. At least for me. I have re-verified sha256sum hashes, good but no boot. The DVD locks on uncompressing the initramfs. I am not sure about the net-install as I don't have time to watch it boot right now. It would be good if we could get new images if they can be fixed. I cannot help with that but I am not surprised - current virtualbox with the 3D extension has worked for some people - you may also wish to avoid gnome 3 which make demands on graphics that may or may not work under kvm/qemu/kemu or whatever .. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
F15 live won't boot?
Trever L. Adams trever.adams at gmail.com writes: It isn't just F15 live. F15 net install and F15 complete DVD will not boot in libvirt/kemu. At least for me. I have re-verified sha256sum hashes, good but no boot. The DVD locks on uncompressing the initramfs. I am not sure about the net-install as I don't have time to watch it boot right now. It would be good if we could get new images if they can be fixed. Are you giving it at least 640M of RAM, preferably more? F15 requires more memory to install (the amount needed after install should be roughly the same, though). https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=682555 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699770 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: F15 live won't boot?
Alan Evans wrote: I just downloaded (by bittorrent) the F15 x86_64 Live CD image, and made a Live USB stick with LiveUSB Creator. I found on one occasion that the Fedora LiveUSB Creator failed, but livecd-iso-to-disk (in the livecd-tools package) worked for me. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: F15 live won't boot?
On 07/06/11 20:31, Genes MailLists wrote: On 06/07/2011 02:50 PM, Alan Evans wrote: Dropping to debug shell. sh: can't access tty: job control turned off Sadly F15 is a bit of a pile of warm poop - you'll probably need to udpate dracut to get this to work ... see if that helps. Sad to say I've found Fedora 15 release to be somewhat more unreliable than usual. Hopefully given a few weeks of updates it will become more stable. Although, given the changes made it is understandable, and I remember going Fedora 8 - 10, skipping Fedora 9 for just that reason. But all credit to the Fedora team for doing a good job, plenty of things to be proud of. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: F15 live won't boot?
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: I just downloaded (by bittorrent) the F15 x86_64 Live CD image, and made a Live USB stick with LiveUSB Creator. I found on one occasion that the Fedora LiveUSB Creator failed, but livecd-iso-to-disk (in the livecd-tools package) worked for me. I haven't used livecd-iso-to-disk in a long time. However, it refuses to even try: The media check is complete, the result is: PASS. It is OK to use this media. USB filesystem must be vfat or ext[23] Cleaning up to exit... Except that I know for certain that the filesystem on the flash drive is vfat. I formatted it just before attempting to write the live image. When it's mounted (not while livecd-iso-to-disk is running) mount tells me it's vfat. Oh well. Thanks everybody for the replies. It would have been nice if the livecd/usb had just worked, but I don't really have the time to dink with this. I'll probably just try F14 or else wait for F16 on this laptop. Such is Fedora... -Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
