<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Marc Karasek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marckarasek@gmail.com">marckarasek@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div 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.</div></blockquote><div>(on some computers) </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> 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<blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"> <blockquote class="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></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div>This search on the Fedora wiki for "sleeping forever", <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&ns0=1&ns4=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns106=1&ns108=1&ns110=1&ns112=1&ns114=1&ns116=1&search=%22sleeping+forever%22&fulltext=Advanced+search">https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&ns0=1&ns4=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns106=1&ns108=1&ns110=1&ns112=1&ns114=1&ns116=1&search=%22sleeping+forever%22&fulltext=Advanced+search</a> </div> <div>suggests that there was a "Live USB label bug" in Fedora 12 that may have originated the said workaround. Consider also the possibility that you may have a hardware detection problem (with video, audio, or some other peculiar hardware on your system) that is triggering the boot failure. You may want to test on other computers.</div> <div><br></div><div>Fedora has not changed their Live USB loading instructions with all the information that they have. And generally, others have are booting successfully with arbitrarily-labelled devices.</div><div><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; "> {...} </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"> <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 href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#Errors_and_Solutions" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#Errors_and_Solutions</a>) or experiment with different devices.</div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div> Have you any results from the above suggestions?</div><div><br></div><div>Sorry that you are having so much trouble. It's good that you are sharing your experiences so that the community can try to understand and resolve the problems!</div> <div><br></div><div> --Fred</div><div> </div></div>