Fedora 7 live issue

[Jack Wallen]

trying to boot the live cd and getting no where.

on an intel-based i386 machine trying to boot the live cd it stalls with
this:

WARNING: Can not find root file system.

all other live cds work just fine. puppy linux, pclinuxos, ubuntu. no
problem. fedora 7 test 3 kde live - big problem.

any thoughts?

[Rahul Sundaram]

jack wallen wrote:
> trying to boot the live cd and getting no where.
>
> on an intel-based i386 machine trying to boot the live cd it stalls with
> this:
>
> WARNING: Can not find root file system.
>
> all other live cds work just fine. puppy linux, pclinuxos, ubuntu. no
> problem. fedora 7 test 3 kde live - big problem.
>
> any thoughts?

Post to fedora-livecd-list or file a bug report in 
http://bugzilla.redhat.com.

Rahul

[Timothy Murphy]

jack wallen wrote:
> trying to boot the live cd and getting no where.

You don't say which Fedora 7 Live CD you are referring to
(there are three) or what computer you are using.

My experience with Fedora 7 Test 3 (6.92) Live CD (KDE version)
was the opposite.
It booted on all 5 of my computers,
where Fedora Test 1 failed on 3 out of 5.

Two slight problems:

(1) KPowersave crashed during the boot on all 3 laptops.
Also I could not run backtrace -
it complained about the absence of gdb.

(2) NetworkManager failed to find the WiFi network
on all the machines.
And KWifiManager was no better.

[In my opinion NetworkManager is not yet fit for general usage.
Actually, I doubt if it ever will be,
since it tries to be far too clever and all-embracing.
What is needed in this case at least
is a simple program which will scan for any available networks,
allow one to choose between them,
and ask for any encryption key required.]

It is a pity, finally, that Fedora Live does not eject the CD
when one shuts down, as Knoppix does.