Description of problem: I haven't done extensive testing yet, but a liveusb image created with an overlay failed to finish booting. This might be a case of the initramfs not having the driver to allow for overlay file systems to work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): livecd-tools-031-1.fc12.1 How reproducible: I only saw it on one build, but I am in a bit of a rush now, so I skipped using the overlay. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
I believe this is actual a problem with the version of syslinux on F12. I had been doing builds on both my rawhide and f12 machines and didn't realize that that was the change that mattered, not specifying space for an update overlay or a home directory. Later when I did a Education and Games spin on the same machine and one worked and one didn't I went looking a little farther. In the syslinux change logs there is a comment for 3.80 about fixing a problem with images over 2GB. So I tried the rawhide version (3.83) on f12 and then the liveusb worked as expected. So I think this has turn into a request to get the rawhide version (or possibly 3.84 though I didn't see particularly interesting fixes in that version) of syslinux on f12 (and probably f11). The version that didn't work: syslinux-3.75-4.fc12.i686 The version that did work: syslinux-3.83-2.fc13.i686
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