[SoaS] Mango Lassi USB Boot issue

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Rajiv Bhushan <rajiv.bhushan at gmail.com> wrote:
> The same thing occurs with SOAS Mirabelle
>
> I am using Unetbootin release 372
>
> I tried modifying syslinux.cfg as suggested in
> https://answers.launchpad.net/soas/+question/95622
>
> I modified
>
> the line
> append initrd=/ubninit root=live:CDLABEL=Fedora-14-i686-Live-SoaS
> rootfstype=auto ro liveimg quiet rhgb rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM
>
> to
>
> append initrd=/ubninit root=live:CDLABEL=Fedora-14-i686-Live-SoaS
> rootfstype=iso966o ro liveimg quiet rhgb rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM
> selinux=0
>
> Still produced the error
>
>  ---------
> No root device found
> Boot has failed, sleeping forever
> ---------
>
> Suggestions are welcome
>
> Rajiv Bhushan wrote:
>>
>> I just use Unetbootin to write the latest Mango Lassi ISO on to a 4G USB
>> stick.
>>
>> I booted onto a Compaq and a Toshiba laptop, and After the initial
>> splash screens, the boot process stops, and I get the following message
>>
>> (Note '----------' indicates begining and end of message or file)
>> ---------
>> No root device found
>> Boot has failed, sleeping forever
>> ---------
>>
>> On examining the files on the USB stick
>>
>> in the /efi/boot folder, boot.conf is as below
>>
>> --------------
>> default=0
>> splashimage=/EFI/boot/splash.xpm.gz
>> timeout 10
>> hiddenmenu
>>
>> title Fedora-14-i686-Live-SoaS
>> kernel /EFI/boot/vmlinuz0 root=live:LABEL=Fedora-14-i686-Live-SoaS
>> rootfstype=auto ro liveimg quiet rhgb
>> initrd /EFI/boot/initrd0.img
>> title Verify and Boot Fedora-14-i686-Live-SoaS
>> kernel /EFI/boot/vmlinuz0 root=live:LABEL=Fedora-14-i686-Live-SoaS
>> rootfstype=auto ro liveimg quiet rhgb check
>> initrd /EFI/boot/initrd0.img
>> ------------------
>>
>> The root folder / the file syslinux.cfg is as follows
>>
>> ----------------
>> default vesamenu.c32
>> prompt 0
>> menu title UNetbootin
>> timeout 100
>>
>> label unetbootindefault
>> menu label Default
>> kernel /ubnkern
>> append initrd=/ubninit root=live:CDLABEL=Fedora-14-i686-Live-SoaS
>> rootfstype=auto ro liveimg quiet rhgb rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM
>>
>> label ubnentry0
>> menu label Fedora-14-i686-Live-SoaS
>> kernel /EFI/boot/vmlinuz0
>> append initrd=/EFI/boot/initrd0.img
>> root=live:LABEL=Fedora-14-i686-Live-SoaS rootfstype=auto ro liveimg
>> quiet rhgb
>>
>> label ubnentry1
>> menu label Verify and Boot Fedora-14-i686-Live-SoaS
>> kernel /EFI/boot/vmlinuz0
>> append initrd=/EFI/boot/initrd0.img
>> root=live:LABEL=Fedora-14-i686-Live-SoaS rootfstype=auto ro liveimg
>> quiet rhgb check
>>
>> label ubnentry2
>> menu label Boot
>> kernel /EFI/boot/vmlinuz0
>> append initrd=/EFI/boot/initrd0.img
>> root=live:CDLABEL=Fedora-14-i686-Live-SoaS rootfstype=auto ro liveimg
>> quiet rhgb rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM
>>
>> label ubnentry3
>> menu label Boot (Basic Video)
>> kernel /EFI/boot/vmlinuz0
>> append initrd=/EFI/boot/initrd0.img
>> root=live:CDLABEL=Fedora-14-i686-Live-SoaS rootfstype=auto ro liveimg
>> quiet rhgb rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM xdriver=vesa nomodeset
>>
>> label ubnentry4
>> menu label Verify and Boot
>> kernel /EFI/boot/vmlinuz0
>> append initrd=/EFI/boot/initrd0.img
>> root=live:CDLABEL=Fedora-14-i686-Live-SoaS rootfstype=auto ro liveimg
>> quiet rhgb check
>>
>> label ubnentry5
>> menu label Memory Test
>> kernel /EFI/boot/memtest
>> append initrd=/ubninit
>>
>> label ubnentry6
>> menu label Boot from local drive
>> kernel /ubnkern
>> append initrd=/ubninit
>> --------------------------
>>
>> The ubnfilel.txt has
>>
>> --------------------
>> EFI/boot/boot.conf
>> EFI/boot/boot.efi
>> EFI/boot/bootia32.conf
>> EFI/boot/bootia32.efi
>> EFI/boot/grub.conf
>> EFI/boot/initrd0.img
>> EFI/boot/isolinux.bin
>> EFI/boot/isolinux.cfg
>> EFI/boot/memtest
>> EFI/boot/splash.jpg
>> EFI/boot/splash.xpm.gz
>> EFI/boot/vesamenu.c32
>> EFI/boot/vmlinuz0
>> LiveOS/osmin.img
>> LiveOS/squashfs.img
>> isolinux/boot.cat
>> isolinux/initrd0.img
>> isolinux/isolinux.bin
>> isolinux/isolinux.cfg
>> isolinux/memtest
>> isolinux/splash.jpg
>> isolinux/vesamenu.c32
>> isolinux/vmlinuz0
>> ------------------------
>>
>>
>> The ubnpathl.txt has
>>
>> ---------------
>> isolinux
>> LiveOS
>> EFI/boot
>> EFI
>> -----------------
>>
>> These are the only files that appear to be editable.
>>
>> Any ideas as to how to get sugar to boot?
>
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Have you looked at the Warning and suggestions found here:
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-walter

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