FC7 Test 4 GNOME based i386 Live CD - problems with SCSI CD-ROM booting

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Apr 29 01:20:11 UTC 2007


Arch Willingham wrote:
> I have gone around our building trying the two versions of the live CD almost all of them boot just fine except for two. Two of our computers have SCSI based CD-ROM's. In both cases the controllers are Adaptec AHA 2940UW......one computer is an old piece of junk (Intel P3, 256 MB RAM) and the other is a newer computer (clone with ASUS motherboard and 1 GB of memory, AMD 3800).
> 
> In both cases, the CD starts to boot and then gets to a point where it says something to the effect of (I have a hard time reading my handwriting so this may not be exact):
> 
> Warning: cannot find root file system.
> Create symlink /dev/root and then exit the shell to continue the boot sequence.
> Bash: no job control in this shell
> bash-3.2#

There are related bug reports filed. Please file another one with your 
system information. Also file a separate one for the KDE live cd 
rdesktop issue.

Rahul




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