On 06/04/2007 10:14 PM, Sjoerd Mullender wrote: > I'm having difficulty with trying out the Fedora 7 Live CD on my old IBM > ThinkPad 600X. When I boot from the CD, I quickly get the messages: > > pci 0000:00:01.0: Error creating sysfs bridge symlink, continuing > pci 0000:00:02.0: Error creating sysfs bridge symlink, continuing > pci 0000:00:02.1: Error creating sysfs bridge symlink, continuing > > then a short pause and then the message > > cpufreq: change failed with new_state 1 and result > > then a longer pause (about 1 minute) and then the message: > > -------------------------------------- > WARNING: Cannot find root file system! > -------------------------------------- > > Create symlink /dev/root and then exit this shell to continue > the boot sequence. > > and then a bash prompt. > > I can get rid of the first messages by adding the option pci=noacpi to > the boot command line, but the real problem is that the CD drive doesn't > seem to get recognized. I know the drive works: I can boot off of it, > and in Fedora Core 6 (which I have currently running on the system, with > acpi=noirq), it works fine. > > Does anyone have an idea of what I can try next to get the Live CD to work? > > Although what I really want to know is whether the system can run under > F7 (that's why I'm trying out the Live CD). > > Since I only have an extremely limited environment with the interactive > shell, I can't record any data from the F7 kernel. > Despite the problems with the Live CD I upgraded the system to F7 (using the "yum upgrade" method). Everything went fine, except after reboot the X display was no good. But "X -configure" from runlevel 3 sorted that out. The only problem now is that the CD drive is not recognized. That's not a big deal for me since I didn't use it much anyway. I haven't tried hibernate/suspend yet. -- Sjoerd Mullender
