[SoaS] Problem with Mirabelle and USB Boot

[Marc Karasek]

  I was involved with the thread you mentioned, Fred.

It looks to me like the image is looking for the name "FEDORA" at some 
point in the boot to mount root??  I need to look into this further to 
make sure.  If you make a stick and have it named anything other than 
FEDORA, it looks like the boot fails.  I do not know if this is tied to 
the other gentleman's problem of not saving information across a boot.  
I think that may have been a case of not specifying any persistent 
storage in liveusb.

Marc


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On 7/14/2010 12:01 AM, Frederick Grose wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Marc Karasek <marckarasek at gmail.com 
> <mailto:marckarasek at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     This is to continue the discussion on having to name the USB Stick
>     FEDORA.
>
>
>     If you look back a few releases, the instructions used to say name
>     the USB Stick Fedora before you installed the image. 
>
>
>     It looks like the live-usb creator program is using the USB sticks
>     nameto generate the UUID that is in the .cfg file.  I think that
>     at some point in the boot, something is looking to mount the USB
>     stick and it seems to be looking "Fedora" as the name for the image. 
>
>
>     I would have to dig into the boot sequence to see at what point it
>     fails. 
>
>
>     I do know that if you either change the USB stick name and .cfg
>     file after installing or name it Fedora before you install the
>     image, it will boot.  Otherwise you end up with the error message: 
>
>
>         no root device found
>
>         sleeping forever
>
>
>     Marc
>
>
>     On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Marc Karasek <marckarasek at
>     gmail.com <http://gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>         OK,
>
>
>         To prevent it name the sticks Fedora prior to putting the
>         image on them.
>
>         (This step should be added to the online instructions.)
>
>
>
>         Fredrick Grose :
>
>
>         Before doing this we need a discussion of why naming the
>         device 'Fedora' is needed.
>
>
> The discussion shows this to be an incomplete installation, 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/soas@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg01570.html.
>
> We can hope that those familiar with Syslinux booting of Fedora LiveOS 
> images can better explain the failures and partial recovery.
>
> Sometimes the symptoms you report are peculiar to corrupted 
> filesystems or boot sectors.  You may want to  troubleshoot those 
> aspects (by reformatting or reseting the master boot record, if 
> possible, some pointers here, 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#Errors_and_Solutions) 
> or experiment with different devices.
>
> Sorry for the incomplete answer.
>
> Thank you for you efforts!   Let us know what you learn.
>
>         --Fred
>
>
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