Xfce Live-image USB trouble with EXT4

[Lars_Krimi]

Hi all

I have a problem which needs some explaining... I guess.

I used to run the XFCE Fedora 10 spin on my AA1 and today I created a liveusb of Fedora 11 (the standard Gnome version), installed it no trouble (standard install). Re-booted my machine and immediately realised why I couldn't stand Gnome (Buttons in bottom of windows dissappear if window to big and I cannot lift the window above the top, rendering many things impossible to do) so I happily downloaded the XFCE spin, made a liveUSB and tried booting it.

Unfortunetaly it gave an error which goes approximately like this:

"Cannot find file system.

Entering bla bla some sort of Terminal like thing

Please create symlink /dev/root and exit this (whatever the thing was called) to continue boot."

Then I have the option of giving commands like in the Terminal. I'm a terminal noob and couldn't get it to work.

I suspect this happens because maybe the LiveUSB cannot detect the EXT4 filesystem (which was created when I installed the Gnome version of Fedora 11) and therefore fails to boot?

If anybody knows how to help me I'd be very grateful.

[ryptyde]

I have installed F10 and F11 Gnome to AAO and know what you mean about the "invisible" buttons :) I use the alt + left mouse button to move one of those pesky windows. I do have F11 Gnome on a usb stick and when I boot it on the AAO that also has F11 installed to it I can see the ext3, ext4 partition and also the ntfs and Acer recovery partition.

Booting the Xfce liveusb shouldn't be affected by the installed OS as the usb device is selected to boot before any other device. My guess is that the Xfce liveusb is "defective", try booting it on another machine and see.

[Lars_Krimi]

The solution to the problem I found was infuriatingly simple... I put the USB key into a different USB-port... and voila! It worked.

I do get one error from my XFCE though... says that it cannot find the internet adress for my username. Says it might work if I add the username to /etc/hosts. As the complete noob I am I have no idea where to add it in the hosts file though... any help?

[Lars_Krimi]

Yay :-)

Figured out how to add it and it solved the trouble.

[AlexMex90]

would be helpful for me if you tell me how to do it :(

[Lars_Krimi]

HI... I$m on holiday atm but I seem to recall what you should do:

Open the /etc/hosts file with Geany.

Copy the top line and replace the Localhost thingy with your username. That should make it work.

I'll check it out when I get home exactly if you can't make it work.