Live CD FD7T1 won't boot on some machines

[Adam Pribyl]

Same problem here. As /dev is almost empty I bet on udev problem. This is 
bit older hardware and FC6 Live CD is working fine so no sata magic.

Adam Pribyl

On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Martin Sourada wrote:

> Live CD of Fedora 7 Test 1 fails to boot on some machines (propably on most 
> of them?) with this error message:
>
> -------------------------------------
> WARNING:Cannot find root file system!
> -------------------------------------
>
> Create symlink /dev/root and then exit this shell to continue
> the boot sequence.
>
> bash: no job control in this shell
> bash-3.2# ls -l /dev/root
> ls: cannot access /dev/root: No such file or directory
> bash-3.2# cat /etc/fstab
> /dev/mapper/livecd-rw   /                       ext3    defaults,noatime 0 0
> devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
> bash-3.2# ls -l /dev/mapper/livecd-rw
> ls: cannot access /dev/mapper/livecd-rw: No such file or directory
> bash-3.2# ./init
> mount: proc already mounted
> Bug in initramfs /init detected. Dropping to a shell. Good luck!
>
> bash: no job control in this shell
> bash-3.2# exit
> exit
> bash-3.2# exit
> exit
> Bug in initramfs /init detected. Dropping to a shell. Good luck!
>
> bash: no job control in this shell
> bash-3.2# exit
> exit
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>
> What is the problem? Is there a possible workaround?
>