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

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 09:09:33AM -0700, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> 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.

Ah ... that makes sense of course.

It's a little confusing, but an easy fix.

Rich.

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