F9 preview: live cd issues

[Gary Thomas]

Gerry Reno wrote:
> Since I wasn't able to get F9 Preview or Beta installed, I d/l F9 
> Preview Live CD and booted it.  It almost did not boot.  I was getting 
> all kinds of weird block device errors and a lot of trouble reading 
> the cd with errors on /dev/sr0 like (and I verified the media - it was 
> good):
>
> Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0462
> end_request, I/O error, dev sr0, sector 33840
> Unable to find persistent overlay; using temporary
> Red Hat Nash version 6.0.47 starting
> Setting up new root fs
> no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
> unmounting old /dev
> unmounting old [bunch of icon chars like hearts and things]
> unmounting old /sys
>       Welcome to Fedora
>
>
> Once it finally did boot I went in and sent a smolt profile of my 
> machine.  It is here:
> http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_a85342c8-29ef-4208-a216-161ee87bcb2f 
>
>
> With all the weird errors I've seen I think that F9 is having some 
> difficulty with the  SATA/IDE controllers/drives.
> This machine has three SATA controllers:
> Gigabyte 2 int 2 ext
> AMD660 4 int
> HighPoint 2300 4 int
I see such errors on every Fedora LiveCD I've ever built (even on my 
non-standard
embedded boards).  They are only related to the CD device itself and 
don't seem to
hurt anything (except one's sensibilities)

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