fedora 12 live-usb won't boot

[schneidz]

hi, i got the 64 bit version of fedora 12 on a live-usb but it wont boot my hp elitebook 6930p (grub wont load; the pc goes directly to win-xp).
fedora 11 live-usb boots up fine on it.

i tested the fedora-12 usb on an older acer extensa 4620z and it boots fine.

did they do something different with the boot loader/ grub that makes it incompatible on some pc's ?
thx.

[JEO]

Is the usb flash drive formatted with fat32? Did you format it from within windows on the computer you are trying to boot from? (possible geometry incorrect issue as seen by your BIOS).

---------- Post added at 10:39 AM CST ---------- Previous post was at 10:28 AM CST ----------

I just looked in my HP BIOS settings and HP calls the geometry setting "Translation Mode" and it's under IDE/SATA options. The default on mine was "Bit Shift" and when I changed it to "LBA Assisted" I was able to boot a fat32 drive that was formatted on another computer and wouldn't boot on the HP due to geometry problems.

[schneidz]

^ thx, the closest setting i see is:
sata device mode
ahci
ide
raid
and ahci is checked.

i mounted both usb's to fc-9 live cd (the fedora-11 usb disk label is referred to as disk-1):[fedora@localhost ~]$ mount
/dev/mapper/live-rw on / type ext3 (rw,noatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
/dev/sr0 on /mnt/live type iso9660 (ro)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/fedora/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=fedora)
/dev/sdb2 on /media/disk type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/disk-1 type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal)
/dev/sdc on /media/Fedora-12-x86_64-Live type iso9660 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,uid=500)
[fedora@localhost ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/live-rw 4.0G 2.2G 1.9G 54% /
tmpfs 1011M 48K 1011M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sr0 691M 691M 0 100% /mnt/live
gvfs-fuse-daemon 4.0G 2.2G 1.9G 54% /home/fedora/.gvfs
/dev/sdb2 3.7G 28K 3.5G 1% /media/disk
/dev/sdb1 3.7G 2.3G 1.3G 64% /media/disk-1
/dev/sdc 656M 656M 0 100% /media/Fedora-12-x86_64-Live
[fedora@localhost ~]$ ll -R /media
/media:
total 10
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 2009-11-22 18:45 disk
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2009-06-22 16:15 disk-1
dr-xr-xr-x 5 fedora root 2048 2009-11-09 14:44 Fedora-12-x86_64-Live

/media/disk:
total 16
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 16384 2009-10-05 20:03 lost+found

/media/disk/lost+found:
total 0

/media/disk-1:
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-06-22 16:17 LiveOS
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2009-06-22 15:46 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-06-22 16:17 syslinux

/media/disk-1/LiveOS:
total 2311532
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 2009-06-22 16:17 osmin.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3035627520 2009-06-22 16:17 overlay--43024672-bc3f-4c69-9741-5b475bab023e
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 713965568 2009-06-22 16:17 squashfs.img
ls: cannot open directory /media/disk-1/lost+found: Permission denied

/media/disk-1/syslinux:
total 9236
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 2048 2009-06-22 16:17 boot.cat
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1117 2009-06-22 16:17 extlinux.conf
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 13824 2009-06-22 16:17 extlinux.sys
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 5181216 2009-06-22 16:17 initrd0.img
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 14336 2009-06-22 16:17 isolinux.bin
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 116720 2009-06-22 16:17 memtest
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 775160 2009-06-22 16:17 splash.jpg
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 147728 2009-06-22 16:17 vesamenu.c32
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 3118000 2009-06-22 16:17 vmlinuz0

/media/Fedora-12-x86_64-Live:
total 24
dr-xr-xr-x 3 fedora root 2048 2009-11-09 14:43 EFI
-r--r--r-- 1 fedora root 18363 2009-11-09 14:44 GPL
dr-xr-xr-x 2 fedora root 2048 2009-11-09 14:43 isolinux
dr-xr-xr-x 2 fedora root 2048 2009-11-09 14:45 LiveOS

/media/Fedora-12-x86_64-Live/EFI:
total 2
dr-xr-xr-x 2 fedora root 2048 2009-11-09 14:43 boot

/media/Fedora-12-x86_64-Live/EFI/boot:
total 15338
-r--r--r-- 2 fedora root 421 2009-11-09 14:43 bootx64.conf
-r-xr-xr-x 1 fedora root 225633 2009-11-09 14:43 bootx64.efi
-r--r--r-- 2 fedora root 421 2009-11-09 14:43 grub.conf
-r--r--r-- 2 fedora root 11321454 2009-11-09 14:43 initrd0.img
-r--r--r-- 2 fedora root 14336 2009-11-09 14:43 isolinux.bin
-r--r--r-- 2 fedora root 1031 2009-11-09 14:43 isolinux.cfg
-r--r--r-- 2 fedora root 160280 2009-11-09 14:43 memtest
-r--r--r-- 2 fedora root 390373 2009-11-09 14:43 splash.jpg
-r--r--r-- 1 fedora root 17488 2009-11-09 14:43 splash.xpm.gz
-r--r--r-- 2 fedora root 147728 2009-11-09 14:43 vesamenu.c32
-r--r--r-- 2 fedora root 3423296 2009-11-09 14:43 vmlinuz0

/media/Fedora-12-x86_64-Live/isolinux:
total 15101
-r--r--r-- 1 fedora root 2048 2009-11-09 14:48 boot.cat
-r--r--r-- 2 fedora root 11321454 2009-11-09 14:43 initrd0.img
-r--r--r-- 2 fedora root 14336 2009-11-09 14:43 isolinux.bin
-r--r--r-- 2 fedora root 1031 2009-11-09 14:43 isolinux.cfg
-r--r--r-- 2 fedora root 160280 2009-11-09 14:43 memtest
-r--r--r-- 2 fedora root 390373 2009-11-09 14:43 splash.jpg
-r--r--r-- 2 fedora root 147728 2009-11-09 14:43 vesamenu.c32
-r--r--r-- 2 fedora root 3423296 2009-11-09 14:43 vmlinuz0

/media/Fedora-12-x86_64-Live/LiveOS:
total 655287
-r-xr-xr-x 1 fedora root 23040 2009-11-09 14:44 livecd-iso-to-disk
-r-xr-xr-x 1 fedora root 8192 2009-11-09 14:45 osmin.img
-r-xr-xr-x 1 fedora root 670982144 2009-11-09 14:48 squashfs.img

stuff that deals with the boot directory seems to be different; i may have imaged the wrong iso.
i made the fedora-12 usb using this method:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo
Direct Copy

Starting with Fedora 12, .iso files can also be written directly to USB sticks using "dd" or similar tools. Please note this will overwrite any data on the targeted partition, and will also not create storage to support data persistence.

# dd if=Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso of=/dev/USBDEVICE
i made the original fedora-11 usb using the livecd-iso-to-disk command.

[JEO]

You may want to edit your link to the howto, and remove the extra colon at the end.

I have not created a live usb using this new dd method. It's possible that the BIOS of one computer might not know how to deal with an ISO9660 filesystem on a USB flash drive.

If I were you I would try reformatting it on the target computer and after making sure you can boot it to say, a windows dos prompt, then run the livecd-iso-to-disk script method.

[mihcos]

i'm trying to boot fedora 12 from live-usb too...and i have grub2 as bootloader. From what i found at web i can't use loopback fedora, but i don't know what to write for fedora 12 in grub2 even if i extract the files on the usb. I had wrote this but it dosen't work:
menuentry "Fedora 12" {
linux /boot/iso/Fedora12/EFI/boot/vmlinuz0 root=/boot/iso/Fedora12/EFI/boot rootfstype=auto ro liveimg quiet rhgb
initrd /boot/iso/Fedora12/EFI/boot/initrd0.img
# loopback loop /boot/iso/Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso
# linux (loop)/EFI/boot/vmlinuz0 boot=EFI/boot iso-scan/filename=/boot/iso/Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso
# initrd (loop)/EFI/boot/initrd0.img
}

[schneidz]

You may want to edit your link to the howto, and remove the extra colon at the end.

I have not created a live usb using this new dd method. It's possible that the BIOS of one computer might not know how to deal with an ISO9660 filesystem on a USB flash drive.

If I were you I would try reformatting it on the target computer and after making sure you can boot it to say, a windows dos prompt, then run the livecd-iso-to-disk script method.

nope, i reformatted it as fat32 and ran livecd-iso-to-disk on it and it still wont boot up ?

---------- Post added at 01:02 AM CST ---------- Previous post was Yesterday at 04:43 PM CST ----------

progress: i reformatted it as ext3 but i dont get a grub menu at bootup. i get loading grub stage 1.5...
grub error 17. and it hangs forever.

thanks,

[schneidz]

i used the gui tool for creating live usb and was at least able to get a grub menu.
i am now getting this error rite after boot:

drhd: handling fault status reg f000674e
kernel panic - not syncing: dmar hardware is malfunctioning


edit: i had to add the boot flag iommu=soft and now i am able to get to the desktop.
but it is pretty slow so i will stick with fc-11 for now.

[Valent]

this is the bug you are looking for: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557426