On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Tim Flink <tflink@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 7 May 2012 20:09:53 +0530 > Amit Saha <amitksaha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hello all: >> >> I built a boot.iso with 'lorax' using Fedora 17 release,version using >> the default templates: >> >> $ sudo lorax --buildarch=i386 -p fedora -v 17 -r 17 -s >> http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/linux/development/17/i386/os/ lorax_op >> >> I faced a couple of issues: >> >> 1. When i boot it using qemu/VirualBox, after selecting the install >> option, the process stops with a white screen. Any reason for this? > > Do you have any logs for the install? That doesn't ring any bells > regarding bugs that we've seen thus far but I'm also not sure that > we've done any spins with just F17 stable, either. No, unfortunately I didn't see anything other than the white screen. (However, I am afraid something is wrong at my end; and I don't have access to sufficient bandwidth to be able to try out the spins). I shall see if I can have something more on this. > >> 2. When I boot it on bare metal after burning to a USB stick, the >> installer goes to the storage device selection stage. I already have >> a Fedora 17 installation on disk, which the new installation isn't >> very happy with and complains that it cannot proceed with the >> installation. Is this expected? > > It's likely that the packages on the boot.iso are older than your base > system if you've been keeping it up to date with updates-testing. I'm > not 100% clear on how upgrades work on the same base version but that > could be part of the problem (assuming that F17->F17 'upgrades' are > supposed to work and I'm not sure that they are). Before building my boot.iso, I had done a 'yum update' with my updates-testing enabled, yes. More details in the reply to Adam's question. Thanks! -Amit -- http://echorand.me -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
