<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> I was involved with the thread you mentioned, Fred. <br> <br> 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. <br> <br> Marc<br> <br> <br> <div class="moz-signature"><b>Marc Karasek</b> <br> Troop 648 Asst Scoutmaster <br> Button Gwinnett Boy Scout Roundtable Commissioner <br> 2010 ScoutFest Director of Outdoor Activities <br> NYLT SM 2010 <br> Herder of Cats <br> God Bless <br> <br> 92-57 Bear <br> _____ <br> / WB \ <br> \92-57/ <br> (((((( <br> <br> Email: <a href="mailto:marckarasek@gmail.com">marckarasek@gmail.com</a> <br> <img moz-do-not-send="false" src="cid:part1.05040906.00080605@gmail.com"></div> <br> On 7/14/2010 12:01 AM, Frederick Grose wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:AANLkTimOdrIph-rjB_OsV0rUYnCdeL5AR4SGfGSHeg8A@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Marc Karasek <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:marckarasek@gmail.com">marckarasek@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> </blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> This is to continue the discussion on having to name the USB Stick FEDORA.</blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> </blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> If you look back a few releases, the instructions used to say name the USB Stick Fedora before you installed the image. </blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> </blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> 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. </blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> </blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> I would have to dig into the boot sequence to see at what point it fails.  </blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> </blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> 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:   </blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> </blockquote> <blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> no root device found</blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> sleeping forever</blockquote> </blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> </blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Marc</blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> </blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Marc Karasek <marckarasek at <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>> wrote:</blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> </blockquote> <blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> OK,</blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> </blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> To prevent it name the sticks Fedora prior to putting the image on them.</blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> (This step should be added to the online instructions.)</blockquote> </blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> </blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> </blockquote> <blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Fredrick Grose :</blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> </blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Before doing this we need a discussion of why naming the device 'Fedora' is needed.</blockquote> </blockquote> <div><br> </div> <div>The discussion shows this to be an incomplete installation, <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.mail-archive.com/soas@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg01570.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/soas@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg01570.html</a>.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>We can hope that those familiar with Syslinux booting of Fedora LiveOS images can better explain the failures and partial recovery.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>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, <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#Errors_and_Solutions">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#Errors_and_Solutions</a>) or experiment with different devices.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Sorry for the incomplete answer.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Thank you for you efforts!   Let us know what you learn.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>        --Fred</div> <pre wrap=""> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org">SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>