[CentOS] LiveCD issue

Sun Sep 29 22:07:36 UTC 2013
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs>

On 09/29/2013 11:22 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan
> <raju.rajsand at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> The build succeded in making an iso but the iso fails to boot on KVM
>> based vm and the real hardware with real cd.
>>
>> the error comes from dracut:
>> dracut: FATAL: Don't know how to handle 'root=live:CDLABEL=c6min-live'
>> dracut: Refusing to continue
>>

Check the Label of your ISO file, apparently it has to be exactly 
"c6min-live", or you need to fix something in your kickstart file.

>
> aught warning during installation of packages"warning:
> /etc/dracut.conf created as /etc/dracut.conf.rpmnew"
>
> Now how do I go about renaming the /etc/dracut.conf.new
>

It looks like you already have /etc/dracut.conf when that package is 
installed.

> and more importantly why the downloaded packages from official centos
> repository has to do this to me?
>
> Centos is supposed "just work", right?
>
>> I am almost tearing my hair out on this.
>>
>> Any help is appriciated
>>
>> TIA
>>
>

I suggest that you enable mdraid and dmraid, so you can use that LiveCD 
on Servers with software RAIDs.


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