where do you report problems with Live FC 22 Xfce?

ToddAndMargo ToddAndMargo at zoho.com
Fri Jul 10 19:37:29 UTC 2015


On 07/09/2015 01:02 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jul 2015 14:18:25 -0700
> ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo at zoho.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Kevin,
>>
>> Yes, it was you I spoke of.  We had a great dialog.
>> I was pleased with the outcome.  I complained, you
>> listened.
>>
>> Getting the thing to boot in certain computers is
>> an absolute pain in the neck.  Specifically,
>> those from Supermicro, but there are others.
>>
>> I finally gave up and made a direct install stick.
>> That did not work with FC22 Xfce's spin either.
>> Wouldn't boot for its life.
>>
>> So I switched to the (really weird) FC22 gnome spin
>> and that worked perfectly.  I then group installed
>> Xfce and it has been fine since.  It boots
>> everything that will boot a USB.
>>
>> FC21's Xfce live did not have this problem, either
>> on Live USB or direct install.
>>

>> Basically FC22 Xfce is only good for creating Live
>> DVD's.
>
> Thats pretty weird to me. It works fine for me here in all my tests.
>
> Additionally, the F22 Xfce spin is made with the exact same
> livecd-tools, kernel, anaconda and packages that the workstation one is
> made from. The only difference is the package set. Booting and such
> should be the exact same on both.
>
>> Never had a problem boot any of the above off HP's
>> el-cheap-o computers, which puzzled me greatly.
>>
>> A lot of the issues are that FC22 Live sets up
>> grub.cfg to device by its direct dev (/dev/sda)
>> instead of by its UUID.  Gnome does UUID.
>> The sdx floats all over the place, depending
>> on what computer you install it into.
>>
>> But switching to UUID only solved some issues.
>>
>> Right now, it is not a big issue for me.  I did
>> the direct install to an old fashioned partitions
>> and can use the stick as a flash drive as well
>> as a boot stick.  I am tickled to death with it
>> and use it about three time a week on customer
>> sites.  I have it cherried out to my needs.
>
> ok, cool. If you are happy then great....
>
> kevin

Hi Kevin,
This may help. This is the various "linux16" from
various grub.cfg.  I didn't keep one for FC21 XFce.

FC22 GNome line 84:

linux16 /vmlinuz-4.0.4-301.fc22.x86_64+debug 
root=UUID=d9ad5224-8ae4-47a0-957c-251a80942f31 ro rhgb quiet 
LANG=en_US.UTF-8


FC22 Xfce:

linux16 /vmlinuz-4.0.4-301.fc22.x86_64 root=/dev/sda2 ro rhgb quiet 
LANG=en_US.UTF-8



More information about the xfce mailing list