Unable to boot off Fedora 10 LiveCD USB Key?

I've got an AOA150 that I'm trying to install the Fedora 10 XFCE Spin (after reading the reviews here: viewtopic.php?f=71&t=7759). I downloaded the ISO, and created a bootable USB floppy drive on a spare 2 GB stick. I've tried using both the text based tool and the GUI tool on my Fedora 10 system.

I've confirmed that I can boot the image on another notebook I have (Dell D820), but when I try to boot my Aspire One, I get a rather generic Boot Error message. That's it.

Is there some sort of magic juju that I'm not doing here?

 

Hi
Install it using live cd as described here and all should be well
http://jorge.fbarr.net/2008/11/10/fedora-10-on-the-acer-aspire-one/
Enjoy

 

I assume you created a bootable USB stick and not a bootable floppy drive. My former laptop was somewhat picky about bootable USB sticks, some worked fine in other computers but not on that particular machine. Have you tried a different USB stick?

 

im having a different problem. the warning that comes up is:

WARNING: Cannot find root file system!

Create symlink /dev/root and then exit this shell to continue
the boot sequence.

bash: no job control in this shell
bash-3.2#


and im stuck. any help?

 

what are you using to create the bootable usb? what steps did you take?

phil

 

used UNetbootin on both windows and my lipus to copy fedora over to my usb. i can boot from it, but then that error message comes up...

the usb is a formated sandisk 4gb, since it has normally a program on it that can install itself on your computer or something like that...

FAT32.
any ideas?

 

It should work. I've been using unetbootin-linux-313 from Fedora and undebootin version 304-1 from Ubuntu with no problems. I've always pointed it to a specific Diskimage rather than selecting the Distribution and Version, if that matters

 

are you talking about a U3 usb disc? if so follow the directions here to remove it fully>> http://u3.com/support/default.aspx#CQ3 then try using liveusb-creator >> https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ to make the bootable usb, post back to let us know how you get on

phil

 

sucsess. finally. thank you.

 

np good to hear you got it going

phil

 

is there a way to change the "partition of the disk" from ext3 to ext2 without re-installing it? because now i have installed it and it works ok.... i just really don't want to re-install it again... but will probably do so if it isn't possible...
just checking....

 

I believe all you have to do is edit /etc/fstab and change the filesystem type from ext3 to ext2.

 

kay, according to the guide on the first page, i still need to convert the filesystem again in a "unusual way". now, i tried it, and it didn't go that way, but that's probably because i didn't get how to turn off selinux. but now i found some other guide.. easyer guide to turn off selinux:

http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-d ... dora-10-p2

but if i bother to do the converting to ext2 again, then i will probably give some tips on that to. last time i tried it messed up the system, i couldn't get internet and i had to reinstall the system again, and do the whole update system again, witch, on a system like this, takes a whole day.....

and when i look at a lot of the things that is written there, the how-to-do and so on, are pretty complex for a guy like me that has no idea about anything that has to do with linux. they should make a compleete noob guide as well...