On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:29:15AM -0800, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > No root device found > Boot has failed > Sleeping forever
If it boots fine on a PC (you didn't say), and not on your Mac, yet it boots on Tom Gilliard's Mac, then my guess is the way your optical drive is connected is different to how Tom's is connected, or it takes too long to reappear after a bus reset, and this is enough to prevent the Fedora "dracut" component from finding the root device. > I googled this error message and the problem seems to be very common > with Fedora live CDs and live usbs. There doesn't seem to be a > definitive answer. I agree. I've heard this said quite a bit. I think the software component is fragile and not as widely tested as the Ubuntu Live CDs. Apart from diagnosing the problem in detail, which would take some hours, the only other suggestion I have is to say "it doesn't work on some Macs, but you might boot it using VirtualBox on those Macs". Have you tried the Trisquel 5 Sugar ISO that Tom recommends? Being derived from the Ubuntu Live CD infrastructure may make it so entirely different that it will work on your Mac. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _______________________________________________ Testing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing
