On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Adam Williamson <awill...@redhat.com>wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 12:11 +0530, RT User wrote: > > Adam, > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Adam Williamson <awill...@redhat.com> > > wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 00:16 +0530, RT User wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > > > One of my most anticipated features of F17 is the native > > install on > > > Mac. > > > > > > I have a Late 2011 MBP with Lion and refit. I booted F17 > > off of a > > > USB. I get past the grub menu and couple of seconds into > > plymouth boot > > > fails by dropping me into dracut shell. > > > > > > I see > > > > > > <snip> > > > dracut Warning: Unable to process initqueue > > > dracut > > Warning: /disk/by-label/Fedora-17-Alpha-x86_64-Live-Desk does > > > not exist > > > dracut Warning: /dev/mapper/live-rw does not exist > > > > > > Dropping to debug shell > > > </snip> > > > > > > Anything I need to get past this error? > > > > > > How exactly did you write the image to USB? it's important to > > know. > > Thanks! > > > > > > I wrote the ISO using unetbootin on OS X. Should I use dd instead? > > dd or livecd-iso-to-disk , please, yeah. it's difficult enough trying to > keep track of the 'officially supported' methods for writing to USB and > make sure those work, anything third party is pretty much 'doctor, it > hurts' territory - you're welcome to try, but you're kind of on your own > if you do. > > at present, if you dd a DVD or netinst image to USB, it'll be bootable > via EFI. if you dd a live image to USB it won't be. (This is dumb, we > know...it's this way because the generation process for the > 'traditional' images and the generation process for the live images is > pretty different, so they wound up diverging). if you use > livecd-iso-to-disk , as long as you pass the --efi parameter, *any* > image should be EFI bootable. but remember to pass --efi , and please > use the very latest livecd-tools from updates-testing : 17.7-1.fc17 for > F17, 16.11-1.fc16 for F16, and 15.12-1.fc15 for F15. There are known > bugs with writing F17 images with any earlier version. > > Thanks! will test later today and report back Steve
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