On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 01:30 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > Don't use root=. Use repo= or stage2=. You will note that root= is not > > listed anywhere on Anaconda_Boot_Options. This is intentional. > > It pervades http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dracut/Options. Which is the authority? For anaconda, the page about anaconda options... > >> root= seems to be the missing component, but the doc doesn't seem to tell how > >> to figure out what it needs to be to get an installation started with Grub. :-( > > > It's not missing. You should not specify it. I'm not sure about the > > network config specification parameters, sorry. > > I only used any root= on the last couple of tries, because using > > title Install Fedora 17 - m.u.k.o HTTP (2012/05) > kernel (hd0,6)/f17inst/vmlinuz > repo=http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/fedora/development/17/i386/os > ip=192.168.1.2::192.168.1.1:255.255.255.0 nameserver=192.168.1.1 rd.luks=0 > rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 splash=verbose noipv6 enforcing=0 selinux=0 xdriver=radeon > resolution=1152x864 vga=794 nodmraid nofirewire (the end of which gets > truncated because too long) > initrd (hd0,6)/f17inst/initrd.img > > I get: > > [35.617391] dracut Warning: Unable to process initqueue > [35.659644] dracut Warning: /dev/root does not exist > Dropping to debug shell. > dracut:/# The interesting thing there is 'unable to process initqueue'. There's an init.log around somewhere which should give you more info on it. I'm trying to remember the detailed debugging steps but I can't quite at the moment, I have them all in IRC logs not a bug report :/ Can you check from the shell you wind up at whether the network is actually up and working? If it isn't, that is almost certainly the problem. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
