Fedora 19 Live CD: kernel panic during boot

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Hi,

I've found the cause: Linux between 3.9.2 and 3.9.8 had a bug (#964335 on Red Hat bugzilla) and didn't boot on my hardware. Sadly, this kernel version is used in the Fedora 19 Live CD.

To solve this, I created my own Live CD with latest packages (including Linux 3.9.9), by following the wiki page How_to_create_and_use_a_Live_CD. Here is how I proceeded:

1. I created a very simple config file using system-config-kickstart, ks.cfg

2. I added those 3 lines a the beginning of ks.cfg, to indicate that I want a Fedora 19 instead of 18:

   %include /usr/share/spin-kickstarts/fedora-livecd-desktop.ks
   repo --name=fedora --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-19&arch=$basearch
   repo --name=updates --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f19&arch=$basearch

3. I ran this command to create the Live CD iso:

   sudo livecd-creator --verbose --config=ks.cfg --fslabel=FedoraLiveCDTest --cache=/tmp

Here we are, I now have a FedoraLiveCDTest.iso file which boots OK :-)