Talk:Testing/Reports/livecd-iso-to-disk

Test
- (passed) see info below--Satellit 08:34, 11 April 2012 (EDT)

dd write

 * 4 GB USB:-Test of 4.1 Live .iso's

Tris55:/home/(user)/Desktop/BetaRC4.1# dd if=Fedora-17-Beta-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=2M 323+0 records in 323+0 records out 677380096 bytes (677 MB) copied, 119.145 s, 5.7 MB/s Tris55:/home/(user)/Desktop/BetaRC4.1#

Disk Utility-on 8 GB Toshiba USB GPT 2 fAT / 7500
 * Boot dd 4 GB USB
 * Insert target USB (8 GB Toshiba USB) - to install to

Install to 8 GB Toshiba USB
liveinst use whole review back custom delete partitions gpt 2 fAT / 7500 no swap

resizing /dev/sdb2 install bootloader Reboot
 * Copying live image to hard drive


 * grub 2.00 beta~ 2
 * Has only 2 lines

can't open font file true
 * Firstboot to gnome 3.4.0

Total file system capacity 7.8 GB (used 2.8 available 5.1)
 * Disk Usage Analyzer

Background

 * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811438

Description of problem: For 17 Beta RC4, the KDE Lives are too large: Fedora-17-Beta-i686-Live-KDE.iso : 754974720 Fedora-17-Beta-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso : 752877568 Confirmed fixed with RC4.1: Fedora-17-Beta-i686-Live-KDE.iso : 718274560 Fedora-17-Beta-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso : 715128832 All other size and checksum tests pass for RC4.1 as well. Adam Williamson 2012-04-10 21:00:15 EDT

bcl> adamw: I'm headed for bed. But we can easily turn off including the macboot.img in livecd-creator and lorax. bcl: we're going to just do an rc4.1 spin with 17.4. since 17.7 doesn't actually boot anyway (you confirmed that), it's winning us nothing. and we've had a lot of testing with 17.4-generated images, so it seems safest just to go back to that.


 * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811412

If I write F17 Beta RC4 desktop live to USB with dd, boot from it via BIOS mode, and try to do an installation, it does not succeed. At bootloader installation stage it pops up the 'there was a problem during bootloader installation, the system may not be bootable' warning. Indeed, on reboot, the system is not bootable - grub reports 'error: file `/grub2/i386-pc/normal.mod` not found. Entering rescue mode...' and gives me the rescue prompt.

stuff on the USB stick. (Yes, it scans the USB stick). grub2-mkconfig run just ends with it claiming it's found OS X on the USB stick, and then it exits with
 * Working theory - this is due to grub2-mkconfig getting confused by the macboot