Issue booting F10 LiveUSB

[Hyperfreak]

Hello, all. I used the LiveUSB installer to create a Fedora i686 installation on my 1gb thumbdrive with a persistent storage of 205mb. All was well and good yesterday, if a bit shaky, and I got the updates and packages fine.

Well, after having done absolutely nothing, I come back today, try to boot again, and this time am met with the following:


mount: you must specify the filesystem type
Big in initramfs /init detected. Dropping to a shell. Good luck!

Bash: no job control in this shell
Bash-3.2# (then a prompt)

I searched around, but most of the solutions floating around didn't match up with my problem.

So at this point, the OS won't even boot as it did yesterday. Thoughts? Where should I go from here?

Thanks,
~Wes

[Hyperfreak]

After poking around a bit more, having updated might have been the problem. I'm going to go at it with an eight gb thumb drive separately and see if it fixes the problem.

[Hyperfreak]

The eight gig yielded the same results. Once I installed updates, I wasn't able to boot it anymore, getting that same message. Any tips as to being able to install updates and still have a functional OS?

[Pocahontas7]

I originally wanted to partition my new Dell Mini 10 so that I have XP and Fedora 10. (XP already there). Now maybe I'm on the wrong path, but I was starting with a live USB. However, when I attempt to boot, I get this message:

r8169: eth0: link down
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): ETH0: link is not ready

And then nothing else. It just sits there.

Now, like I mentioned before, I want to partition my drive... kind of a half and half, perminantly. Is there a way to do it without a CD? (No CD drives on the Dell Mini's).

[zackf]

Updates will cause those boot problems on the live system. If you have an 8 gig USB drive you might be better off going with the full install. You can fully update that.

You can however update and install individual packages.