f21 (rawhide) live installs - Use SoaS as it works.

[Thomas Gilliard]

Problem is at the moment only f21 (rawhide) live SoaS live writes a 
booting f21 DE.
  Other lives give "unaligned pointer 0x3feefa81" INIT18: BOOT FAILURE 
on reboot after installation.[1]

This is how I got a working 3 DE installation to a USB 1 GB HD:
- Use SoaS as it works. [2]
Burn and Boot live SoaS DVD/CD
switch to list view in main sugar screen (top right box with horizontal 
lines)
scroll down to terminal and start it
  su (to get root terminal in live user)
  liveinst
anaconda 21.36-1 runs and completes
Reboot to HD and log in
Then use root terminal app to do yum install @kde-desktop @gnome-desktop 
@sugar-desktop
log out
log in
system boots to DE chosen in switcher.

This works fine for the 20140520 Soas -live (i686 or x86_64) and earlier 
versions.

Tom Gilliard
satellit

[1]Testing: 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_21_Rawhide_2014_05_Ins...
[2]Download:  https://apps.fedoraproject.org/releng-dash/

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 06:27 -0700, Thomas Gilliard wrote:
>  Problem is at the moment only f21 (rawhide) live SoaS live writes a 
>  booting f21 DE.
>    Other lives give "unaligned pointer 0x3feefa81" INIT18: BOOT FAILURE 
>  on reboot after installation.[1]
>  
>  This is how I got a working 3 DE installation to a USB 1 GB HD:
>  - Use SoaS as it works. [2]
>  Burn and Boot live SoaS DVD/CD
>  switch to list view in main sugar screen (top right box with horizontal 
>  lines)
>  scroll down to terminal and start it
>    su (to get root terminal in live user)
>    liveinst
>  anaconda 21.36-1 runs and completes
>  Reboot to HD and log in
>  Then use root terminal app to do yum install @kde-desktop @gnome-desktop 
>  @sugar-desktop
>  log out
>  log in
>  system boots to DE chosen in switcher.
>  
>  This works fine for the 20140520 Soas -live (i686 or x86_64) and earlier 
>  versions. 
or, of course, you can just use boot.iso. but it sounds like pjones is
getting closer to a fix now.
-- 
Adam Williamson
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[Gene Czarcinski]

On 05/21/2014 12:07 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>  On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 06:27 -0700, Thomas Gilliard wrote:
> > Problem is at the moment only f21 (rawhide) live SoaS live writes a
> > booting f21 DE.
> >    Other lives give "unaligned pointer 0x3feefa81" INIT18: BOOT FAILURE
> > on reboot after installation.[1]
> >
> > This is how I got a working 3 DE installation to a USB 1 GB HD:
> > - Use SoaS as it works. [2]
> > Burn and Boot live SoaS DVD/CD
> > switch to list view in main sugar screen (top right box with horizontal
> > lines)
> > scroll down to terminal and start it
> >    su (to get root terminal in live user)
> >    liveinst
> > anaconda 21.36-1 runs and completes
> > Reboot to HD and log in
> > Then use root terminal app to do yum install @kde-desktop @gnome-desktop
> > @sugar-desktop
> > log out
> > log in
> > system boots to DE chosen in switcher.
> >
> > This works fine for the 20140520 Soas -live (i686 or x86_64) and earlier
> > versions.
>  or, of course, you can just use boot.iso. but it sounds like pjones is
>  getting closer to a fix now. 
Yup.  grubby-8.35-1 now results in a good grub.cfg
when you do a live 
install.  The file may appear a little strange but it does work ... the 
rescue menuentry is first and the regular kernel is second.

Gene