Live CD won't boot
by Jack Wallen
so far i've found myself burning coasters just like another user. i burn
the CDs with K3B, the checksums turn out fine, but when i try to boot
the disk it stalls for a while and just says "boot failure...press any
key to reboot" and that's it. no errors, no warnings, no nothing.
has anyone else experienced this problem? this machine has had various
versions of Fedora Core without any problem.
so far Fedora 7 is turning out to be a total bust for me.
--
jack wallen, jr. www.monkeypantz.net
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. - Voltaire
17 years
Tired of making coasters
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
I've tried two different burners and the most data I can fit onto a
700MB CDR seems to be about 733MB. The image for the x86_64 Fedora 7
live CD is 780MB (817156096 bytes). Anyone have any suggestions as to
how to fit the x86_64 ISO image onto a 700MB CDR? I'm attempting to
write the ISO to either of:
[root@bend ~]# cat /proc/ide/hdb/model
CR-48X9TE (Mitsumi)
[root@bend ~]# cat /proc/ide/hdc/model
SONY DVD RW AW-Q170A
using K3B and the blank CDRs are Memorex 700MB CDRs. The best result
was with the Sony DVD burner which managed to write 733MB before getting
an error. Is there a different media manufacturer who produces blank
CDRs with more capacity? Alternatively, can I just write the CD ISO to
a DVD+R? I'd like to confirm certain functionality using the live CD
*before* I install FC^h7 so a network install doesn't cut it.
Commentary: I can appreciate the benefits of having a live CD for
installation. It strikes me as silly to make said live CD image larger
than will nominally fit on a CDR.
Thanks,
Dave
--
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
-- Ambrose Bierce
17 years
F7 VDR live TV video output
by Bernd Bartmann
Hi,
I'm positively surprised that VDR and VDRadmin-am are included in F7.
I just copied my old channels.conf into /etc/vdr and I can see the EPG
information in VDRadmin. Looks like I can switch channels and do timer
based recordings, but how do I get live TV video output in F7, i.e. I
don't have a full-featured card. So I need a way to to display a live
stream with a software mpeg decoder like xine or mplayer.
PS: Many thanks for all the work that has been put into F7. Looks like
a great release!
Best regards,
Bernd.
17 years
wireless radio question
by Gene Heskett
Greetings;
I just installed the i386 F7 on an HP dv5120us, which has a broadcom 4318
radio in it.
According to dmesg, it was disabled at boot time. bcm43xx_mac80211 and
friends are loaded according to lsmod.
I haven't yet went through the pain of mounting the ntfs partition to gain
access to the windows bcmwl* drivers, nor of installing fwcutter and
ndiswrapper.
However it seems to me that in order for any of this to work, the radio must
first be turned on, and none of the tools installed seem to have the ability
to turn it back on once the boot process has turned it off. KwifiManager
only shows the disable option. There is also a button under the led in the
hinge that controls it, but there is apparently no tally available to detect
if its enabled or not, and rebooting to find out seems to be a kludge, which
is what I had to do when FC5 was installed on this lappy.
So step #1 is turning it back on. What tool is used, and how is this
accomplished?
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
I am a computer. I am dumber than any human and smarter than any
administrator.
17 years
how to convert F7 to everything?
by Jack Howarth
I would like to convert my existing Fedora 7 installation
to use the Everything repo's. Is there an approved way of
doing that?
Jack
17 years
Re: Tired of making coasters
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> David G. Miller wrote:
>
>
>> > Yes, it's a problem in this case. I would like to confirm that specific
>> > functionality works with the Fedora 64-bit kernel. As an example, my
>> > laptop has a Broadcom 4306 wireless NIC that currently only works with
>> > ndiswrapper when running with a 64-bit kernel. It seems like 64-bit is
>> > the poor step-child when it comes to things like wireless support,
>> > memory card readers, etc. Anything that doesn't work 64-bit but works
>> > under 32-bit tends to get a response of, "Just run 32-bit."
>>
>
> That likely to be the case for quite sometime. The user base in over 80%
> still on x86 possibly because some popular proprietary software hasn't
> moved over.
>
> http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/stats
>
> I doubt that any combination of Live or regular images would fit into
> all end user/system admin/developer requirements which is one of the
> reasons there is a focus on spinning your own.
>
> http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/05/31/remixing-fedora-7/
>
>
> Rahul
I'll burn the DVD and see what I can get working from there. I just
think the project is missing an opportunity, though. Either:
1) A base OS live CD that installs to a RAM disk and is sufficient to
run whatever applications from additional "applications" CDs or kick off
an install, or
2) A live CD for each of "internet server CD", "file/print server CD",
and a "desktop CD" any of which can kick off an install.
would allow interesting subsets of "everything" to fit on 700MB CDs.
What additional QA effort is required for additional CDs is probably a
wash against trying to cram everything into one image and making sure
there aren't any problems with having everything accessible (e.g.,
servers and desktop applications).
My position on Linux live images is to make the best impression on as
many people as possible. That means minimal hardware requirements and
as little overhead (things a particular audience isn't interested in) as
possible. Either technique above achieves that.
Cheers,
Dave
--
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
-- Ambrose Bierce
17 years
Re: Re: Installing F7 by CD and not by DVD
by Mike C
H.S. wrote:
>How about this:
>1. Download boot.iso from Fedora 7 mirrors (e.g. from
>ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/images/)
>2. Burn that to a CD (makes a bootable CD).
>3. Download the Fedora 7 DVD iso (best is done from torrents) and put it
>on a partition in your disk which will not be overwritten during
>installation.
>4. Boot from the boot disk and start installation by telling the
>installer to install from the ISO image that is on your hard disk.
You can do it without any media at all if you start with an existing
fedora installation.
Put the Fedora 7 DVD iso file on a partition that will not be written
during install as you say and then do the following:
Make a mount point to hold the loop mounted iso.
# mkdir /mnt/tmp
Now loop mount the iso with
# mount -o loop whatever_the_path_to the_DVD.iso /mnt/tmp
cp -a /mnt/tmp/isolinux/vmlinuz /boot/FC7.install
cp -a /mnt/tmp/isolinux/initrd.img /boot/FC7.initrd.img
Then add the following 4 lines to the end of grub.conf (in /boot/grub )
title Fedora Core 7 Installer
root (hd0,5) # <****** (change to correct disc and partition
number as needed)
kernel /boot/FC7.install
initrd /boot/FC7.initrd.img
Don't put the characters from # <*** onwards - that is just a comment!
In the root line (hd0,5) these two numbers will usually be the same
as for your normal kernel boot. If you have multiple discs and
different OSes on the same disc this may need adapting but usually is
the same as the numbers for your normal boot.
You need to check on correct path for where the DVD iso file is on HD
- and keep it to hand, as well as the partition number for when you
start the new bootup - see below.
Then re-boot and you will have an option to go to the FC7 installer
file you have just set up.
Choose HD install, and put in the partition and path to the DVD iso
file and the install will go just like any other ...
Mike
17 years
Fedora 7 - System lockup
by Jeffrey Ross
The system has locked up twice since yesterday afternoon. The same
hardware was running FC6 x86_64 for months without a problem.
I am now running the i386 version of Fedora and have noticed the
following errors in my logs:
Jun 1 20:27:03 wisdom kernel: ata7.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0
SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Jun 1 20:27:03 wisdom kernel: ata7.01: cmd
a0/00:00:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 0
Jun 1 20:27:03 wisdom kernel: res
40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Jun 1 20:27:03 wisdom kernel: BAR5:00:00 01:7F 02:22 03:CA 04:00 05:00
06:00 07:00 08:00 09:00 0A:00 0B:00 0C:01 0D:00 0E:00 0F:00
Jun 1 20:27:03 wisdom kernel: ata7: soft resetting port
Jun 1 20:27:04 wisdom kernel: ata7.00: configured for UDMA/33
Jun 1 20:27:04 wisdom kernel: ata7.01: configured for MWDMA2
Jun 1 20:27:04 wisdom kernel: ata7: EH complete
17 years