F11: LiveCD problems

[Kevin J. Cummings]

On 08/10/2009 04:53 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> 
> For the first time, I have booted off the LiveCD
> and I notice several problems:
> 
> (1) The GUI screen starts up with the "teardrop", completes
>     filling it up, and then it drops into a shell
> (2) It says something about creating a symlink (/dev/root)
>     and so I issued:
>    (a) rm -fr root
>    (b) ln -s /dev/root /root
>    (c) exit
>    And the result is the keyboard has Caps-Lock & Scroll-Lock
>    LEDs flashing.  Nothing happens, so I pressed the hardware

This is a sign that the kernel panic-ed....  There was talk about
flashing the kernel panic reason as Morse Code, but I don't think they
ever implemented that.

>    reset button and the system reboots.  After rebooting again,
>    filling the "teardrop" again, this times it falls into a shell
>    again.
> 
> (3) It says something of a "non-standard" filesystem or volume
>     and says that it fails to create a ramdiskfs.

That could be a problem....  IIRC, the liveCD tries to read the
partition table and decide if there is a usable swap partition there, as
well as your current system to mount.

> Looks to me that I am unable to get F11's LiveCD to work
> on my system.
> 
> I will download the DVD version and see if this works.

What are you trying to do?  Upgrade or Install?

I recently failed getting the F11 DVD to work on either of 2 systems (1
upgrade [x86_64], 1 install [i586]).  I *was* able to upgrade/install
F10 on both systems and then use preupgrade to upgrade to F11.

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