f21 (rawhide) live installs - Use SoaS as it works.

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed May 21 16:07:43 UTC 2014


On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 06:27 -0700, Thomas Gilliard wrote:
> Problem is at the moment only f21 (rawhide) live SoaS live writes a 
> booting f21 DE.
>   Other lives give "unaligned pointer 0x3feefa81" INIT18: BOOT FAILURE 
> on reboot after installation.[1]
> 
> This is how I got a working 3 DE installation to a USB 1 GB HD:
> - Use SoaS as it works. [2]
> Burn and Boot live SoaS DVD/CD
> switch to list view in main sugar screen (top right box with horizontal 
> lines)
> scroll down to terminal and start it
>   su (to get root terminal in live user)
>   liveinst
> anaconda 21.36-1 runs and completes
> Reboot to HD and log in
> Then use root terminal app to do yum install @kde-desktop @gnome-desktop 
> @sugar-desktop
> log out
> log in
> system boots to DE chosen in switcher.
> 
> This works fine for the 20140520 Soas -live (i686 or x86_64) and earlier 
> versions.

or, of course, you can just use boot.iso. but it sounds like pjones is
getting closer to a fix now.
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