F11: LiveCD problems

[Daniel B. Thurman]

Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> 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.
>   
I have a 1TB HD,  5GB of swap,  in an extended logical partition
and at the end of the drive. I also have 500GB of free-space, in
and extended partition, somewhere "in the middle".

Perhaps I ought to move swap into it's own primary partition
nearer to the "beginning" of the drive?

>   
>> 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?
>   
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.
>   
The problem is, that I cannot upgrade F9/10 as multiple attempts to do 
so fails.