Fedora 11 Live cd not Booting

[sundar_ima]

1. Downloaded fedora 11 gnome version today and written to the disc as image file. I am extremely disappointed with the first boot (and till now). While booting from the CD i could see the menu and booting went on fine till i saw the the cursor. thats it. Now i could see only courser and black screen nothing else. It should never happen to anyone trying fedora for the first time (like me) :mad:

2. Again rebooted. This time waited till 10 sec to boot automatically. I got this message on the black screen " Bug : Unable to handle Kernel panging request".

3. I am using multiple live distro on my pendrive. usually what i do is just copy the file structure of the live CD and change the syslinux.cfg file path. This time too fedora 11 booted well with boot screen and fedora symbol but at the end this is the message i got "please provide symlink in boot/root".

Can anybody help me to login Fedora usind Live CD or USB.

(i know live USB can be created with shell script which comes with the distro but i do not want to loose my other 20 distros on my USB)

[bob]

Recheck your media. You may have had a bad download or a bad burn. Compare the sha1sum against your download to verify it's okay.

[scottro]

Heh, Bob, typo there--not sha1 anymore, it's sha256

[bob]

Yep, sorry - old habits, etc.

[minaq]

[..] While booting from the CD i could see the menu and booting went on fine till i saw the the cursor. thats it. Now i could see only courser and black screen nothing else. [..]

Hi, I have the same problem with Fedora-11-x86_64-Live-Games.iso (4 117 864 448 b). IsoLinux starts, shows the (grub?) menu, but neither 'Boot' nor 'Verify and boot' works (MemTest works fine). After a few seconds freezes the system with blank screen and flashing cursor in the upper-left corner.

I checked the SHA checksum (OK), checked the DVD disc for errors (none found), tried to disable lots of computer hardware in BIOS, but with no effect.

Main comp. spec.: Intel C2D 6400, MSI P965 (ICH8), NV GeForce 7900GS

A would like to test F11 from liveDVD before installing and don't want to download another ISO (if the problem remains there), so anyone knows how to boot it?

[Squalphin]

If you have a NVidia Card you could try to add "nouveau.modeset=1" to the live-cd boot parameters. At least it worked for my GeForce 8400M GS.

[AlexDudko]

Why do you use DVD instead of CD? It happens sometimes that CD images, burned to a CD/RW or DVD/RW don't boot, but the same image, burned to a CD/R boots just fine.

[Squalphin]

I have used a DVD too because I didn't have any empty CDs. And I didn't have any problems booting the livecd so I don't think that this is a problem.

[minaq]

Why do you use DVD instead of CD? [..]

I got that image file from a friends pendrive. I use DVD disc, cause it would be hard to burn 4GB on a CD... ;) (just a joke)


If you have a NVidia Card you could try to add "nouveau.modeset=1" to the live-cd boot parameters [..]

Doesn't help... When I remove bootparam quiet I can see, that boot freezes AFTER that line:

Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)... ok
[cursor flashes here]

Could someone tell me what is next line in normal (working) boot?

[sundar_ima]

i have downloaded new iso file (gnome version) did checksum but again same problem continues. so again downloading kde version. lets see what will happen... before that anybody got an answer???

[sundar_ima]

Any body have an answer? check sum is fine and same Live CD works fine on my friend's laptop.

I have ATI Redeon graphics card (RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]).

[AlexDudko]

Any body have an answer? check sum is fine and same Live CD works fine on my friend's laptop.

I have ATI Redeon graphics card (RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]).

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=224107

[Ajtiii]

I have the same problem...

I downloaded Fedora 11 few hours ago and I am unable to get it working...

It starts to boot and the last screen is black screen with cursor...

What I should do??? I am new to FEDORA...

---
Latitude XT, ATI x1250, ...

[0ddity]

What boot media are you using?

[Ajtiii]

What boot media are you using?

I tried Fedora 11 Live CD (i686), now i386 DVD and it hangs too

I will try it in VESA mode, but i do not know commands to install ATI drivers...


EDIT: I have tried ... no graphic environment

Ubuntu is fully working, Slax is fully working, ... but fedora don't :(

[sundar_ima]

What boot media are you using?

I have used both Live CD (gnome and Kde) and USB but result is same. Gone through this link http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=224107 but not working...

[0ddity]

I had this problem a couple times when booting from live usb. I was using the liveUSB creator in Vista, on a downloaded ISO. I found that starting the program in administrator mode and setting 0MB of persistent storage worked for me, but that is a very specific fix that may not work for you.

[sundar_ima]

Today tried to boot with following parameters on the kernal boot line...

nocpi

noacpi

acpi=off

pci=nomci

and

nomodeset

but the result is same :(

[Ajtiii]

I have also tried pci=no... and acpi=off and the same... please help...

[tmthyvs]

Trying to get the Live CD (Fedora 11-i686-Live CD) to boot on my computer:

Dell Dimension 8100
Pentium 4, 1300 MHz
256 MB RAM
Nvidia GE Force 2 MX/MX400

I get the countdown, Memory Check works just fine, but when I go to boot, I get a blank screen with the following error messages:

IO APIC resources could not be allocated

end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector XXXXXX
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block XXXXXX

(where XXXXXX is a number). The last two lines repeat themselves several times, with the number occasionally varying. I've used two different burns of the CD (making sure I had a good CD, rather than just a cheap CD) and gotten the same thing both times (except for different sector/block numbers). I've tried a number of the different boot options (nomodeset, noapic, acpi=off, nouveau.noagp=1) that I've seen suggested, but to no avail. Any advice? Am I likely to have the same sort of problems if I use the install CD's rather than the live CD (my desire is for a basic Fedora installation to use mostly for various coding applications--(C++, LaTeX, html for instance). That said, I'm new to any of the administrative aspects of using Linux--it just "works" at school). Thanks in advance for any help!

[Ajtiii]

Can someone help me please?

[ap90033]

hmm, I tried Fedora 11 live kde and booted fine with my ATI 4870x2, removed and replaced with (2) GTX260 Nvidia's and now it cant make it to graphical desktop just sits there. Ideas?