Fedora 7 live CD on ThinkPad 600X fails

Chris Schumann chris at idlelion.net
Tue Jun 5 02:44:06 UTC 2007


> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:14:18 +0200
> From: Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd at acm.org>

> I'm having difficulty with trying out the Fedora 7 Live CD on my old IBM
> ThinkPad 600X.  When I boot from the CD, I quickly get the messages:

Old?!? ... Oh yeah. I guess seven years is kind of old. :)

 > ...
> cpufreq: change failed with new_state 1 and result
> 
> then a longer pause (about 1 minute) and then the message:
> 
> --------------------------------------
> WARNING: Cannot find root file system!
> --------------------------------------

I cannot duplicate this problem on my 600X. It boots from the CD just 
fine. However I have not yet installed F7 on a 600X.

> Does anyone have an idea of what I can try next to get the Live CD to work?

I would do the mediacheck.

> Although what I really want to know is whether the system can run under
> F7 (that's why I'm trying out the Live CD).

It sure appears to work fine here.

-- Chris




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