[Users] [SOLVED] Re: Install on USB stick fails

[Alexandre Santos]

2012/10/24 Alexandre Santos <santosam72 at gmail.com>

> Thanks a lot... will try it later and give some feedback.
>
> Alex
>
>
> 2012/10/24 Moran Goldboim <mgoldboi at redhat.com>
>
>> On 10/22/2012 01:25 AM, Alexandre Santos wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I've been using a 8GB USB stick to boot the oVirt Node but with only 8
>>> GB i have no swap and less than 1 GB available for log. I bought a 16 GB
>>> but now I can't boot with this one.
>>> It gives 2 warnings:
>>> dracut Warning: Unable to process initqueue
>>> dracut Warning: /dev/mapper/live-rw does not exist
>>>
>>> Dropping to debug shell.
>>>
>>> dmesg gives the following info:
>>>
>>> EXT4-fs (sda2): mounted filessystem without journal. Opts: (null)
>>> then those warnings and the boot stops, going to a dracut shell.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
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>>
>> might be this specific usb dirve.
>> -try to look here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/**
>> showthread.php?t=281692<http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=281692>
>> -you might try the nested virtualization option - described in the wiki[1]
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/**OVirt_Live<http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/OVirt_Live>
>> Moran.
>>
>
>
The solution was to change the kernel boot parameters when installing from
the CDROM.

Basically, root=live:/dev/sr0 did the trick. After rebooting, the USB had
all the links on dev, specially /dev/mapper/live-rw that was missing on the
prevous install.

Alex
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