Re: Fedora 16 is released

[Kevin Thomas <axel2078@gmail.com>]

No, I haven't tried the 32-bit Live CD yet or the installation DVD.  I'm thinking it's just my particular hardware in my new Dell XPS laptop because I was able to boot from the Fedora 15 Live CD on my  9 year old laptop and install it just fine, but when I tried it on my new laptop, it just dropped me to the Dracut debug shell while it was booting.  I tried the Fedora 15 32-bit Live CD, 64-bit Live CD, and the installation DVD and none of them would boot.  At least this time, with the Fedora 16 Live CD, it gave me an error saying it couldn't find the live image, but I still don't know how to fix it or why this is happening on a fairly new laptop. Although I just bought this XPS a few months ago, this particular model has been sold by Dell for close to a year now.

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage <dsavage@peaknet.net> wrote:

Kevin,

Live CDs don't get quite the same rigorous testing that Installation
DVDs do. Suggest you file a bug report in Bugzilla
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com) against that particular Live CD.
Corrections (re-spins) are fairly common for Live CDs.

I don't suppose you tried a 32-bit Live CD....?

--Doc

On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 08:13 -0600, Kevin Thomas wrote:
> I downloaded the live cd.
>
> On Nov 9, 2011 6:35 AM, "Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>
> wrote:
>         Kevin,
>
>         "I just downloaded the Fedora 16 64-bit iso"
>
>         Which iso did you download? One of the live CDs or the
>         installation DVD?
>
>         --Doc
>
>         On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 17:31 -0600, Kevin Thomas wrote:
>         > I just downloaded the Fedora 16 64-bit iso a couple hours
>         ago and
>         > burned it to disc. I'm trying to boot off the disc on my
>         Dell XPS
>         > laptop. However, it fails to boot (just like Fedora 15 did),
>         but with
>         > a different error message. The error message I got seemed to
>         suggest
>         > it couldn't find the root partition on the disc. This is
>         what it said:
>         >
>         > dracut Warning: No root device
>         > "live:/dev/disk/by-label/Fedora-16-x86_64-Live-Desktop.is"
>         is found
>         >
>         > Dropping to debug shell.
>         >
>         > sh: can't access tty: job control turned off
>         > dracut:/#
>         >
>         >
>         > Is anyone else experiencing this? Is there a way around it?
>         I don't
>         > know why I'm having so many problems on this Dell XPS
>         laptop.  I just
>         > got it about 3 months ago and I've had a hell of a time
>         getting it to
>         > boot from any Fedora live media, although it will boot from
>         Scientific
>         > Linux media just fine.
>         >
>         > On 11/08/2011 06:42 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
>         > > We got an early Veteran's Day present this week. Fedora 16
>         was released
>         > > yesterday rather than Friday. You can use the attached
>         scripts to
>         > > download the entire release, including the 1300+ updates
>         that have
>         > > already been released.
>         > >
>         > > As always, edit the LOCAL_DEST and LOCAL_USER variables to
>         match your
>         > > system. Put these in /usr/local/bin, chmod them to 755,
>         and chown them
>         > > to root:root.
>         > >
>         > > Enjoy,
>         > > --Doc




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