[ovirt-users] Kernel panic for live images

[Jaco]

I've (tentatively) confirmed this as an issue with the CentOS IRC 
channel - that images need to be dd'd & not written with tools, meaning 
that this portion of the wiki is irrelevant: 
http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_Live#USB

On 02/08/14 09:50, Jaco wrote:
> update:
> It seems that there's a bug in the implementation of UNetBootIn and/or 
> liveusb-creator that's causing identical kernel panics to what I'm 
> experiencing.
>
> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6865#c20214
>
> (I'm in the process of migrating off Ubuntu/Debian/.deb for my 
> desktop/infrastructure to RPM's - oVirt being a crucial 1st step)
> Initially I suspected fault RAM (since it;s the only aspect of kernel 
> panics I can actually do something about without chucking out my whole 
> box), but new RAM & a new host makes no difference.
>
> The resolution seems to be to do it by hand - dd.
>
> Will try this & report back.
>
> - J
>
>
> On 01/08/14 07:28, Jaco wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I get kernel panics when booting the live images:
>> *  ovirt-live-3.4.0.el6ev.iso (MD5: 01a83d96a9650dd3da19cc37edaa7b19)
>> *  ovirt-live-el6-3.4.3-1.iso (MD5: 816fd6b1294f4619e205f2efd92f0f2f)
>>
>> I've run Memtest86 (v2.01) & it checks out OK, the current CentOS 6.5 
>> on the host runs OK & live-booting other images (either LiveUSB or 
>> PXE, CentOS, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu & other) works fine.
>>
>> Has anyone else gotten this?
>> Just seeking confirmation that it's not just me before filing a bug.
>>
>> I believe a new images may become available after the testing this week.
>> Will try earlier images to compare.
>>
>> - J
>

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