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I copied the F17 Alpha RC3 x86_64 DVD iso to an 8G USB drive with dd. When I attempt to boot that usb image, I have no problems getting to the syslinux prompt but when I attempt to boot into the installer, I get a grey flashing screen with the error message: uncompression error -- system halting
I was able to work around this bug by installing syslinux-4.05-1 and running isohybrid on the iso (no arguments) before using dd to write the iso to disk
(In reply to comment #1) > I was able to work around this bug by installing syslinux-4.05-1 and running > isohybrid on the iso (no arguments) before using dd to write the iso to disk 0) The Alpha DVD iso linked to from the homepage currently is http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/17-Alpha/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-17-Alpha-x86_64-DVD.iso . I have no idea whether that is RC3 or not. 1) That image is a hybrid iso image. It can be booted (in qemu-kvm) either as a hard disk image or as a DVD disc image. 2) Could it be that the "F17 Alpha RC3 x86_64 DVD" iso that Tim used was originally made hybrid using (current F16) syslinux-4.02-5? Could it further be that using isohybrid from syslinux-4.05-1 (for the second time!) on that iso somehow changed the way that hybrid iso booted in hard disk mode, allowing Tim to boot it from USB disk?
(In reply to comment #0) > When I attempt to boot that usb image, I have no problems getting to the > syslinux prompt but when I attempt to boot into the installer, I get a grey > flashing screen with the error message: > > uncompression error > > -- system halting Just to be complete: those should be kernel messages. See currently (ie, v3.4-rc3): lib/decompress_inflate.c:159: error("uncompression error"); and arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c:270: __putstr(1, "\n\n -- System halted");
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