I just downloaded (by bittorrent) the F15 x86_64 Live CD image, and
made a Live USB stick with LiveUSB Creator. When Trying to boot this
on my Samsung RC512 laptop, the boot process halts, displaying:

Dropping to debug shell.
sh: can't access tty: job control turned off
dracut:/#

What does it mean?...

-Alan
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On 06/07/2011 02:50 PM, Alan Evans wrote:
> Dropping to debug shell.
> sh: can't access tty: job control turned off

Sadly F15 is a bit of a pile of warm poop - you'll probably need to
udpate dracut to get this to work ... see if that helps.
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On 06/07/2011 03:31 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 06/07/2011 02:50 PM, Alan Evans wrote:
>> Dropping to debug shell.
>> sh: can't access tty: job control turned off
>
> Sadly F15 is a bit of a pile of warm poop - you'll probably need to
> udpate dracut to get this to work ... see if that helps.

If you cannot for some reason build a new F15 Live - then there are
some work arounds here that may help:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F15_bugs#Live_USB_overlay_.28persistent_sto rage.29_not_mounted_on_boot
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On 06/07/2011 01:32 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 06/07/2011 03:31 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
>> On 06/07/2011 02:50 PM, Alan Evans wrote:
>>> Dropping to debug shell.
>>> sh: can't access tty: job control turned off
>> Sadly F15 is a bit of a pile of warm poop - you'll probably need to
>> udpate dracut to get this to work ... see if that helps.
> If you cannot for some reason build a new F15 Live - then there are
> some work arounds here that may help:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F15_bugs#Live_USB_overlay_.28persistent_sto rage.29_not_mounted_on_boot
It isn't just F15 live. F15 net install and F15 complete DVD will not
boot in libvirt/kemu. At least for me. I have re-verified sha256sum
hashes, good but no boot. The DVD locks on uncompressing the initramfs.
I am not sure about the net-install as I don't have time to watch it
boot right now. It would be good if we could get new images if they can
be fixed.

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On 06/07/2011 03:41 PM, Trever L. Adams wrote:

> It isn't just F15 live. F15 net install and F15 complete DVD will not
> boot in libvirt/kemu. At least for me. I have re-verified sha256sum
> hashes, good but no boot. The DVD locks on uncompressing the initramfs.
> I am not sure about the net-install as I don't have time to watch it
> boot right now. It would be good if we could get new images if they can
> be fixed.
>

I cannot help with that but I am not surprised - current virtualbox
with the 3D extension has worked for some people - you may also wish to
avoid gnome 3 which make demands on graphics that may or may not work
under kvm/qemu/kemu or whatever ..






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Trever L. Adams <trever.adams <at> gmail.com> writes:

> It isn't just F15 live. F15 net install and F15 complete DVD will not
> boot in libvirt/kemu. At least for me. I have re-verified sha256sum
> hashes, good but no boot. The DVD locks on uncompressing the initramfs.
> I am not sure about the net-install as I don't have time to watch it
> boot right now. It would be good if we could get new images if they can
> be fixed.

Are you giving it at least 640M of RAM, preferably more? F15 requires more
memory to install (the amount needed after install should be roughly the same,
though).

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=682555

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699770



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Alan Evans wrote:

> I just downloaded (by bittorrent) the F15 x86_64 Live CD image, and
> made a Live USB stick with LiveUSB Creator.

I found on one occasion that the Fedora LiveUSB Creator failed,
but livecd-iso-to-disk (in the livecd-tools package) worked for me.


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On 07/06/11 20:31, Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 06/07/2011 02:50 PM, Alan Evans wrote:
>> Dropping to debug shell.
>> sh: can't access tty: job control turned off
>
> Sadly F15 is a bit of a pile of warm poop - you'll probably need to
> udpate dracut to get this to work ... see if that helps.

Sad to say I've found Fedora 15 release to be somewhat more unreliable
than usual. Hopefully given a few weeks of updates it will become more
stable. Although, given the changes made it is understandable, and I
remember going Fedora 8 -> 10, skipping Fedora 9 for just that reason.

But all credit to the Fedora team for doing a good job, plenty of things
to be proud of.
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On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard@eircom.net> wrote:
>> I just downloaded (by bittorrent) the F15 x86_64 Live CD image, and
>> made a Live USB stick with LiveUSB Creator.
>
> I found on one occasion that the Fedora LiveUSB Creator failed,
> but livecd-iso-to-disk (in the livecd-tools package) worked for me.

I haven't used livecd-iso-to-disk in a long time. However, it refuses
to even try:

The media check is complete, the result is: PASS.
It is OK to use this media.
USB filesystem must be vfat or ext[23]
Cleaning up to exit...

Except that I know for certain that the filesystem on the flash drive
is vfat. I formatted it just before attempting to write the live
image. When it's mounted (not while livecd-iso-to-disk is running)
mount tells me it's vfat.

Oh well. Thanks everybody for the replies. It would have been nice if
the livecd/usb had just worked, but I don't really have the time to
dink with this. I'll probably just try F14 or else wait for F16 on
this laptop. Such is Fedora...

-Alan
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On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Alan Evans <ame.fedora@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard@eircom.net> wrote:
>>> I just downloaded (by bittorrent) the F15 x86_64 Live CD image, and
>>> made a Live USB stick with LiveUSB Creator.
>>
>> I found on one occasion that the Fedora LiveUSB Creator failed,
>> but livecd-iso-to-disk (in the livecd-tools package) worked for me.
>
> I haven't used livecd-iso-to-disk in a long time. However, it refuses
> to even try:
>
> The media check is complete, the result is: PASS.
> It is OK to use this media.
> USB filesystem must be vfat or ext[23]
> Cleaning up to exit...
>

Did you umount the flash drive before running livecd-iso-to-disk? If
not then it won't work!

if your flash drive is /dev/sdb1 then you need to umount /dev/sdb1 as
root before using livecd-iso-to-disk to write to that partition.

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