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Description of problem: Fedora 11 Preview LiveCD doesn't boot from USB stick. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Official preview LiveCD. How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot from USB LiveCD 2. 3. Actual results: Graphical splash screen appears with countdown message. After that, screen switches to text mode, and the progress bar appears at the bottom. During boot a couple of messages like this EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_find_entry: reading directory #30238 offset 0 appear, but progress bar continues until it's completely white. After this, boot doesn't proceed, and USB led keeps blinking repeatedly, indicating activity. Pressing one of the arrow keys shows another screen where the same messages are printed continuously: sd 8:0:0:0:0: [sdb] assuming drive cache write through sd 8:0:0:0:0: [sdb] Write protect is off Expected results: Fedora 11 would boot. Additional info: Fedora 11 Beta LiveCD has been tested on the same USB stick and booted without a problem.
Can you verify the files written to the usb stick match (you can loopback mount the iso and then compare with sha1sum LiveOS/squashfs.img)? This looks like either a bad write or possibly a dying usb stick
Hi Jeremy, sorry for not replying sooner. Unfortunately, it's not media related AFAICS, sha1sum is the same for both files: ~ sha1sum squashfs.img /media/COSTA\ DRIVE/LiveOS/squashfs.img 948503307b9135521ae2f243ea5e1104ed79f604 squashfs.img 948503307b9135521ae2f243ea5e1104ed79f604 /media/COSTA DRIVE/LiveOS/squashfs.img ~ df . Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/loop0 665142 665142 0 100% /tmp/f11
I just saw the same thing on an acer aspire one d150. Verified sha1sum of squashfs.img as well, all is fine. When I am home later I'll upload a photo of the screen
Created attachment 343504 [details] F11 preview live image failing to boot on Acer Aspire One D150
USB key was created on F-10 using livecd-iso-to-disk as detailed here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo
Should probably run e2fsck on the ext4 image, wherever it's hiding inside the squashfs image?
(In reply to comment #6) > Should probably run e2fsck on the ext4 image, wherever it's hiding inside the > squashfs image? I could try that. Should I expect the e2fsck from F-10 to be ext4 capabale? Also, is the version of squashfs used for the F11 images compatible with the F-10 kernel? If I need an F-11 install to do that... well, it's a bit chicken and egg :)
(In reply to comment #7) > I could try that. Should I expect the e2fsck from F-10 to be ext4 capabale? should be, though not totally uptodate. Temporarily installing rawhide's (or koji's?) e2fsprogs might be nice: http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/e2fsprogs/1.41.5/1.fc12/ > Also, is the version of squashfs used for the F11 images compatible with the > F-10 kernel? If I need an F-11 install to do that... well, it's a bit chicken > and egg :) heh, it may not be, not sure.
(In reply to comment #8) > > Also, is the version of squashfs used for the F11 images compatible with the > > F-10 kernel? If I need an F-11 install to do that... well, it's a bit chicken > > and egg :) > > heh, it may not be, not sure. It seems not to be: # mount -t squashfs -o loop squashfs.img /mnt mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so What is a bit perplexing about this is, if it was a corrupt squasfs that was the problem, then noone could install the preview release... and yet (presumably) people are... When I get a bit of time later, i'll try installing to a virtual machine.
Hm, interesting data point. For shits and giggles I tried the KDE spin prerelease, and that boots fine.
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