The boot process starts on my Thinkpad T61, but stops with:
WARNING: Cannot find root file system!
Create symlink /dev/root and then exit this shell to continue the boot sequence.
The Thinkpad currently has only WinXP Home. Where should I point /dev/root? And why am I seeing this? I thought part of the point of the Live CD was so that a Windows user could boot it up and try F7 without making any other mods?
I've run the i686 Live CD with no problem on i686 machines, but they all had Linux installations.
TIA.
on 8/15/2007 10:55 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
The boot process starts on my Thinkpad T61, but stops with:
WARNING: Cannot find root file system! Create symlink /dev/root and then exit this shell to continue the boot sequence.The Thinkpad currently has only WinXP Home. Where should I point /dev/root? And why am I seeing this? I thought part of the point of the Live CD was so that a Windows user could boot it up and try F7 without making any other mods?
I've run the i686 Live CD with no problem on i686 machines, but they all had Linux installations.
Maybe because the x86_64 live CDs is are DVDs and you don't have a DVD drive? ;-)
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 11:04 -0700, David Boles wrote:
on 8/15/2007 10:55 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
The boot process starts on my Thinkpad T61, but stops with:
WARNING: Cannot find root file system! Create symlink /dev/root and then exit this shell to continue the boot sequence.The Thinkpad currently has only WinXP Home. Where should I point /dev/root? And why am I seeing this? I thought part of the point of the Live CD was so that a Windows user could boot it up and try F7 without making any other mods?
I've run the i686 Live CD with no problem on i686 machines, but they all had Linux installations.
Maybe because the x86_64 live CDs is are DVDs and you don't have a DVD drive? ;-)
No, that's not it. But thanks anyway. 8^P
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 18:45 +0000, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 11:04 -0700, David Boles wrote:
on 8/15/2007 10:55 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
The boot process starts on my Thinkpad T61, but stops with:
WARNING: Cannot find root file system! Create symlink /dev/root and then exit this shell to continue the boot sequence.The Thinkpad currently has only WinXP Home. Where should I point /dev/root? And why am I seeing this? I thought part of the point of the Live CD was so that a Windows user could boot it up and try F7 without making any other mods?
I've run the i686 Live CD with no problem on i686 machines, but they all had Linux installations.
Maybe because the x86_64 live CDs is are DVDs and you don't have a DVD drive? ;-)
No, that's not it. But thanks anyway. 8^P
On further investigation, it appears that the neither the live image nor the install/rescue image contain the driver for the DVD's controller card.
I suppose that I can still do a network install. But I also guess that there is no way to run the live image. Is that correct? And will a network install find the DVD when it's done?
I had that same problem and resorted to a usb drive install. There's a script that comes with fedora called livecd-iso-to-disk that you can use to create the bootable usb drive.
On 8/15/07, Matthew Saltzman mjs@clemson.edu wrote:
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 18:45 +0000, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 11:04 -0700, David Boles wrote:
on 8/15/2007 10:55 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
The boot process starts on my Thinkpad T61, but stops with:
WARNING: Cannot find root file system! Create symlink /dev/root and then exit this shell tocontinue
the boot sequence.The Thinkpad currently has only WinXP Home. Where should I point /dev/root? And why am I seeing this? I thought part of the
point
of the Live CD was so that a Windows user could boot it up and try
F7
without making any other mods?
I've run the i686 Live CD with no problem on i686 machines, but they
all
had Linux installations.
Maybe because the x86_64 live CDs is are DVDs and you don't have a DVD drive? ;-)
No, that's not it. But thanks anyway. 8^P
On further investigation, it appears that the neither the live image nor the install/rescue image contain the driver for the DVD's controller card.
I suppose that I can still do a network install. But I also guess that there is no way to run the live image. Is that correct? And will a network install find the DVD when it's done?
-- Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 17:09 -0400, Haydn Solomon wrote:
I had that same problem and resorted to a usb drive install. There's a script that comes with fedora called livecd-iso-to-disk that you can use to create the bootable usb drive.
I found that utility in livecd-tools. It's handy because it's non-destructive of data on the USB drive (presumably unlike dd).
I ran it in an i686 machine to write the x86_64 livecd ISO to a 2GB Corsair key drive. But when I boot the T61 from the key drive, I get an "error loading operating system" and the machine freezes and must be powered off to reboot.
Next idea?
Thanks.
On 8/15/07, Matthew Saltzman mjs@clemson.edu wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 18:45 +0000, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 11:04 -0700, David Boles wrote: > > on 8/15/2007 10:55 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > > The boot process starts on my Thinkpad T61, but stops with: > > > > > > WARNING: Cannot find root file system! > > > > > > Create symlink /dev/root and then exit this shell to continue > > > the boot sequence. > > > > > > The Thinkpad currently has only WinXP Home. Where should I > > > point /dev/root? And why am I seeing this? I thought part of the point > > > of the Live CD was so that a Windows user could boot it up and try F7 > > > without making any other mods? > > > > > > I've run the i686 Live CD with no problem on i686 machines, but they all > > > had Linux installations. > > > > > > Maybe because the x86_64 live CDs is are DVDs and you don't have a DVD > > drive? ;-) > > No, that's not it. But thanks anyway. 8^P
On further investigation, it appears that the neither the live image nor the install/rescue image contain the driver for the DVD's controller card. I suppose that I can still do a network install. But I also guess that there is no way to run the live image. Is that correct? And will a network install find the DVD when it's done? -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
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