[Fedora-livecd-list] Fedora 7 fails to boot "Cannot find root file system"

[Jon Steer]

This system is running in a VM.  This same VM ran a FC6 based LiveCD
build quite happily.

jon


On 6/18/07, Cha Gascon <cha.gascon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Probably a motherboard problem (BIOS USB-HDD/USB-ZIP support). I
> tested liveusb on one system it won't work due to this same error,
> then on other motherboard it works.
>
> Anyone know of a usb-zip formatting tool like mkdiskimage but one that
> supports greater than 1024mb (for 2gig usb flash drives)?
>
> On 6/18/07, Jon Steer <jsteer at bitscout.com> wrote:
> > I have built an FC 7 LiveCD on a FC7 system with a kickstart file that
> > was modified from the original. Upon booting, I get a large amount of
> > Ata2.00 exceptions and an error message that it cannot find the root
> > file system. Afterwards, I get a message about creating a symlink for
> > /dev/root.
> >
> > Should I be concerned about the error message about not finding usbhd ?
> >
> > I am trying to build a console-based LAMP server for the LiveCD.
> > The kickstart file is below.
> >
> >
> > skipx
> > lang en_US.UTF-8
> > keyboard us
> > timezone US/Eastern
> > auth --useshadow --enablemd5
> > selinux --disabled
> > firewall --disabled
> > rootpw plaintext
> > repo --name=a-dev
> > --baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/os
> >
> > repo --name=a-extras-dev
> > --baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/development/i386
> >
> > %packages
> > bash
> > kernel
> > syslinux
> > passwd
> > policycoreutils
> > chkconfig
> > authconfig
> > rootfiles
> > ntp
> > yum
> > wget
> > usbutils
> > dmidecode
> > syslog-ng
> > emacs-nox
> > openssh-server
> > mysql-server
> > openldap-clients
> > httpd
> > php
> > puppet
> > php-ldap
> > net-snmp
> > mod_ssl
> > mod_auth_pam
> > mod_auth_kerb
> > mod_auth_mysql
> > -wireless-tools
> >
> > %post
> > --
> >
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>
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> Marie Charisse L. Gascon
> http://www.chasys.net
>
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