[Fedora-livecd-list] Live USB image does not complete the boot process

[Taylor, Monroe E]

I use livecd-creator and a custom kickstart file to create F12 liveUSB images. I have
created a few images which worked well until a month ago when I made some changes to allow
root login and set SELinux to permissive mode.

Now when I create an image, it does not work as expected in that the Fedora logo screen is
not displayed and the Gnome Desktop does not launch on one out of 6 computers.

What happens is when I install the USB and turn on the power the BIOS splash screen is
displayed. Additionally, the Fedora count down screen is also displayed. However, after
the count down has completed, the screen goes dark with only the cursor displayed. After a
few seconds the monitor loses synchronization and the message "No input signal"
is displayed and Gnome Desktop does not launch.

This started occurring on or around March 25. Prior to that time I did not have this
issue.

The liveUSB I previously created still works all 6 computers.

Also, I download the Fedora live image, burned it to a USB and tried it. It also exhibits
the issue.

In trying to diagnose this, I downloaded F12 installation DVD and installed it on the one
computer which exhibits this issue and everything worked fine.

I would at least like to see whether the computer is getting to the startup mode which
allows for interactive boot...

Is there a way to determine which (if any) of the boot scripts are executed before the
message "No input signal" is displayed?

Or is there a way that I can bypass or disable the live countdown splash screen altogether
to see how far it is getting in the boot process?




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Monroe Taylor III
Test engineering
Intel Corporation
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