On Tue, 7 Jul 2015 14:18:25 -0700 ToddAndMargo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Kevin, > > Yes, it was you I spoke of. We had a great dialog. > I was pleased with the outcome. I complained, you > listened. > > Getting the thing to boot in certain computers is > an absolute pain in the neck. Specifically, > those from Supermicro, but there are others. > > I finally gave up and made a direct install stick. > That did not work with FC22 Xfce's spin either. > Wouldn't boot for its life. > > So I switched to the (really weird) FC22 gnome spin > and that worked perfectly. I then group installed > Xfce and it has been fine since. It boots > everything that will boot a USB. > > FC21's Xfce live did not have this problem, either > on Live USB or direct install. > > Basically FC22 Xfce is only good for creating Live > DVD's. Thats pretty weird to me. It works fine for me here in all my tests. Additionally, the F22 Xfce spin is made with the exact same livecd-tools, kernel, anaconda and packages that the workstation one is made from. The only difference is the package set. Booting and such should be the exact same on both. > Never had a problem boot any of the above off HP's > el-cheap-o computers, which puzzled me greatly. > > A lot of the issues are that FC22 Live sets up > grub.cfg to device by its direct dev (/dev/sda) > instead of by its UUID. Gnome does UUID. > The sdx floats all over the place, depending > on what computer you install it into. > > But switching to UUID only solved some issues. > > Right now, it is not a big issue for me. I did > the direct install to an old fashioned partitions > and can use the stick as a flash drive as well > as a boot stick. I am tickled to death with it > and use it about three time a week on customer > sites. I have it cherried out to my needs. ok, cool. If you are happy then great.... kevin
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