Graphics Test Week (ATI, NVIDIA and Intel graphics Test Days)

[Bob Arendt]

On 09/09/09 07:17, mike cloaked wrote:
>> Tomorrow - 2009-09-09 - is ATI/AMD Radeon graphics card Test Day (1).
>
> I have been trying to follow the "procedure" to get the liveusb key to
> boot - but changing the kernel line to either of
> "root=live:LABEL=F12-Snap1-i686-Live
>    to:   root=live:LABEL=F12-i686" or to LABEL=LIVE won't work for me!
> I have seen both the bz reports at
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520207
> and
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521471
>
> The boot gets to the stage where the white/blue line goes across the
> page but the screen then shows "No root device found. Boot has failed,
> sleeping forever" - the advertised method for fixing this fails for me
> - is there any other suggested work-around?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> mike

Try using /sbin/dosfslabel or /sbin/e2label to read the actual label.
Then use that for the label on the boot line.