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

Gene Czarcinski gczarcinski at gmail.com
Thu May 22 15:27:03 UTC 2014


On 05/21/2014 12:07 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 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.
Yup.  grubby-8.35-1 now results in a good grub.cfg when you do a live 
install.  The file may appear a little strange but it does work ... the 
rescue menuentry is first and the regular kernel is second.

Gene


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