> 3. May I suggest rawhide?
I downloaded Fedora-12-Alpha-i386-disc1.iso from the Alpha-RC2
release. The checksum in Fedora-12-Alpha-i386-CHECKSUM matched
the results of sha256sum (although Fedora-12-Alpha-i386-CHECKSUM
says "Hash: SHA1"). I checked the "Alpha" (not "RC2") download
and even though the directory had changed the file must not have
since the checksum was the same. So I have the "Alpha" F12 CD1.
So I extracted install.img and initrd.img and vmlinuz and tried
to boot it using PXE. I tried all of:
kernel F12-AlphaRC2/vmlinuz
append initrd=F12-AlphaRC2/initrd.img ramdisk_size=10000
kernel F12-AlphaRC2/vmlinuz
append initrd=F12-AlphaRC2/initrd.img ramdisk_size=10000 text
kernel F12-AlphaRC2/vmlinuz
append initrd=F12-AlphaRC2/initrd.img ramdisk_size=10000 askmethod
kernel F12-AlphaRC2/vmlinuz
append initrd=F12-AlphaRC2/initrd.img ramdisk_size=10000
repo=nfsiso:172.22.101.50:/home2/me/F/F12-AlphaRC2 ip=dhcp
stage2=nfs:172.22.101.50:/home2/me/F/F12-AlphaRC2/install.img
keymap=us lang=en_US.UTF-8 loglevel=debug
(The last "append" was all on one line, in my pxelinux.cfg file.)
All failed the same way. After some initial kernel typeout lines
it said something about hardware initialization and I got a
totally black screen. Everywhere; ctrl-alt-f1 and f2 and f3 and
so on were totally black. I couldn't even reboot the machine
with a ctrl-alt-delete chord; I had to power-cycle it. So I gave
up on trying to use the "Alpha" release of F12.
Thanks to a pointer (fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide)
from Radek Vykydal I was able to download the (current) 20090825
version of development/i386/os/images/boot.iso; I saw no DVD ISO
image file or CDROM ISO image files to download so I guess they
are not generated for "rawhide" releases. So I won't be able to
test exactly what I am trying to do (an NFSISO install) on any
"rawhide" release; I'll have to wait for a better "Alpha" or for
a "Beta" release I guess.
So again I extracted install.img and initrd.img and vmlinuz, from
the 20090825 boot.iso, and booted them with PXE. This time, a
kernel Rawhide/20090825/vmlinuz
append initrd=Rawhide/20090825/initrd.img ramdisk_size=10000
successfully left me in the stage1 installer. But of course
(since F10) you can't do an NFSISO install manually. So I tried
kernel Rawhide/20090825/vmlinuz
append initrd=Rawhide/20090825/initrd.img ramdisk_size=10000
repo=nfsiso:172.22.101.50:/home2/me/F/Rawhide/20090825
stage2=nfs:172.22.101.50:/home2/me/F/Rawhide/20090825/images/install.img
ip=dhcp keymap=us lang=en_US.UTF-8 loglevel=debug
(The last "append" was all on one line, in my pxelinux.cfg file.)
It appeared to download the install.img and start it, since I got
an arrow-shaped cursor on my screen for a short time. It looked
like a GUI was about to start. But then I got the totally-black
screen(s) and again I had to power-cycle it to get out.
So I booted that PXE choice again but this time when it started I
switched to the console window three, tty3, where the "INFO"
messages type out, and then after a while I pressed my "scroll
lock" key. That did what I wanted, in that it stopped the
installation and didn't leave me in a black screen. I was then
able to read things on the screen and to my amazement I was even
able to type ctrl-alt-f4 to get the other screen of messages and
even a ctrl-alt-f2 where the shell would accept my commands.
So I could have copied them and pasted them here but this was
done manually instead. On tty3, it said
INFO : getting ready to spawn shell now
FATAL : Module dm_mod not found.
FATAL : Module dm_zero not found.
FATAL : Module dm_mirror not found.
FATAL : Module dm_snapshot not found.
INFO : running Anaconda script /usr/bin/anaconda
Along with lots of other stuff, both before and after those.
So after noting those things down I pressed my "scroll lock" key
again and it typed out a few more lines and then the screen went
totally black again and I once more had to power-cycle it to get
it to shutdown or reboot. So I guess Rawhide/20090825 is flawed.
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