[Fedora-livecd-list] My live CD has no boot option in the menu

Brian C. Lane bcl at redhat.com
Mon May 19 16:09:33 UTC 2014


On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 04:07:52PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Can anyone see anything obviously wrong in the attached kickstart?
> 
> The live CD appears to build fine (tried both F20 & Rawhide versions
> of livecd-creator).
> 
> However when booted in qemu:
> 
>   qemu-system-x86_64 -m 2048 -cdrom livecd-minimal-201405171054.iso -boot d
> 
> it only has the "Troubleshooting" menu.  There is no other boot menu,
> nor does it autoboot (I waited quite a while), nor is there any
> visible indication that it is going to autoboot, eg. no countdown.
> 
> Also attached is the isolinux.cfg file extracted from the ISO.

Looks like your build may not have installed any kernels. The boot
stanzas are driven off of the /boot/vmlinuz-* kernels so if there aren't
any kernels you won't get any entries.

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