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Re: Fedora 16 is released



Kevin,

"I just downloaded the Fedora 16 64-bit iso"

Which iso did you download? One of the live CDs or the installation DVD?

--Doc

On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 17:31 -0600, Kevin Thomas wrote:
> I just downloaded the Fedora 16 64-bit iso a couple hours ago and
> burned it to disc. I'm trying to boot off the disc on my Dell XPS
> laptop. However, it fails to boot (just like Fedora 15 did), but with
> a different error message. The error message I got seemed to suggest
> it couldn't find the root partition on the disc. This is what it said:
> 
> dracut Warning: No root device
> "live:/dev/disk/by-label/Fedora-16-x86_64-Live-Desktop.is" is found
> 
> Dropping to debug shell.
> 
> sh: can't access tty: job control turned off
> dracut:/#
> 
> 
> Is anyone else experiencing this? Is there a way around it? I don't
> know why I'm having so many problems on this Dell XPS laptop.  I just
> got it about 3 months ago and I've had a hell of a time getting it to
> boot from any Fedora live media, although it will boot from Scientific
> Linux media just fine.
> 
> On 11/08/2011 06:42 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: 
> > We got an early Veteran's Day present this week. Fedora 16 was released
> > yesterday rather than Friday. You can use the attached scripts to
> > download the entire release, including the 1300+ updates that have
> > already been released.
> > 
> > As always, edit the LOCAL_DEST and LOCAL_USER variables to match your
> > system. Put these in /usr/local/bin, chmod them to 755, and chown them
> > to root:root.
> > 
> > Enjoy,
> > --Doc
> > 
> > 
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