Fedora 9 Live CD boot trouble

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sat Jun 14 14:45:51 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 15:28 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 09:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 13:59 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 08:25 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 13:27 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 11:47 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
> > > > > > In trouble with F9 live install.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Create symlink  /dev/root and then exit shell to continue (or words to
> > > > > > them effect)
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Frank
> > > > 
> > > > You might get an answer if you explain what the question is.
> > > 
> > > Booting live CD fails exits to shell, and as above, to waht does one
> > > create the symlink?
> > 
> > Still not clear. If you're running from the CD, at what point do you
> > need to "exit to shell"? "Exiting to the shell" implies the system
> > detected an error at boot time (e.g. a bad filesystem) and is giving you
> > the chance to fix it. This shouldn't happen with a Live CD, but if it
> > did you need to explain in more detail just what is going on.
> > 
> 
> I just remmed ot rhgb and quiet from the boot to get a better picture.
> 
> Duing boot it says
> 
> "Warning: cannot find root file system!
> 
> Exiting to shell
> To cotinue you will need to create a symlink to /dev/root

As I said, this shouldn't happen. I don't think symlinking is going to
solve it. You need to find out what is really going on. It may be that
the Live CD doesn't recognize some of your hardware correctly.

poc




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